The NNIC Presents:
The Nevada Speakers Series – Fall 2009/Spring 2010

Special Guest Speaker:
Madame Jehan Sadat

An Evening with Jehan Sadat: An Egyptian Woman’s Hopes for Peace

• Tuesday, October 27, 2009 – 7pm
• Truckee Meadows Community College

(co-sponsored by NNIC and ASUN Flipside)

(Note: $10 General Admission and $5 Student Admission)

Jehan Sadat is the wife of the late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat of Egypt from 1970 until 1981. She organized a movement to reform Egyptian Civil Rights Law and was successful in reforming victimizing divorce laws. She is an outspoken advocate for peace in the Middle East and worldwide. Sadat played a key role in reforming Egypt’s civil rights laws during the late 1970s. Often called “Jehan’s Laws” new statutes advanced by her granted women a variety of new rights, including those to alimony and custody of children in the event of divorce. After visiting wounded soldiers at the Suez front during the Six-Day War in 1967, she founded al Wafa’ Wa Amal (Faith and Hope) Rehabilitation Center, which offers disabled war veterans medical and rehabilitation services and vocational training. The center, is supported by donations from around the world and now serves visually impaired children and has a world-wide known music and choir band.

Jehan is a Senior fellow at the University of Maryland, College Park (where The Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace and Development has also been endowed). She also published an autobiography, A Woman of Egypt, as well as poetry in Arabic, under a pseudonym, and has written a second book, My Hope for Peace, released in March 2009.

See our Special Guest Speaker Series brochure (PDF, 545KB)

Posted: Friday, October 2nd, 2009 at 7:54 pm. Filed under: Events, Special Guest Speaker.
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