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Jehan Sadat

Light of the Candle

Since childhood, Jehan Sadat has had a desire to participate in the destiny of her people. Over the years she has fulfilled this wish by devoting herself to public service and to improving the status of women in Egypt.

Born in Upper Egypt in 1933, she married Anwar Sadat at the age of 16.

During the course of their thirty-two year marriage, she earned a Bachelor's in Arabic Language and a Master's in Literature from Cairo University.

One of Sadat's many accomplishments is the establishment of a women's emancipation, education, and training society.

Now known as the Talla Society, this group trains women in various handicrafts, and pay the tuition of nearly one thousand secondary school and university students.

Sadat's other achievements include the founding of a city where handicapped war veterans can live with their families, and participation in the reconstruction of Kasr El Einy Hospital, the first hospital for modern medicine built in th