Word: jehan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Anwar Sadat's only rival for popularity among Egyptians these days is a safe and sure ally: his wife Jehan Sadat, 40, a comely woman with dark brown hair and eyes and a fetching smile. Scarcely a year ago, students demonstrating against the regime covered Cairo walls with insults directed at her, the largely unknown First Lady. But since the October War, when Mrs. Sadat spent highly publicized 20-hour days visiting troops, touring hospitals and working as a bandage roller with the Egyptian Red Crescent, she has won over even these youthful critics. Civilians as well as soldiers...
Friends of the First Lady insist, however, that her most important contribution to Egyptian life has not been in building up wartime morale but in raising the peacetime stature of women. "Many changes have come to Egypt under Sadat," says one, "but Jehan is the greatest change of all." Mrs. Sadat has become the symbol of a special kind of women's lib adapted to a country where women are still generally held down. Without upsetting the traditional male role as family head, Mrs. Sadat has persistently worked for greater rights for women. Among other things, her husband recently...
MEMORIAL CHURCH. Marie-Claire Alan, organist, in recital. Works of Bach, Guilain, Jehan Alain. Free. Friday, November...