Anwar Sadat Signed Time Magazine Cover.

SADAT, Anwar.

Item Number: 139012

Chicago: Time Magazine, June 24, 1974.

Original cover from the June 24, 1974 issue of Time Magazine featuring a color photograph of American President Richard Nixon and Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. Signed by Anwar Sadat. Following the conclusion of the Yom Kippur War in October of 1973 and under Nixon’s presidency, the U.S. reestablished relations with Egypt for the first time since 1967. Nixon used the Middle East crisis to restart the stalled Middle East Peace Negotiations, stating in a confidential memo to Kissinger on October 20: “I believe that, beyond a doubt, we are now facing the best opportunity we have had in 15 years to build a lasting peace in the Middle East. I am convinced history will hold us responsible if we let this opportunity slip by… I now consider a permanent Middle East settlement to be the most important final goal to which we must devote ourselves.” Nixon made one of his final international visits as president to the Middle East in June 1974, and became the first President to visit Israel. In near fine condition with some fold creases. Accompanied by a letter signed by Mahmoud H. Abd El-Nassar on Sadat’s presidential letterhead returning the signed cover to collector Karl Peterson.

In his eleven years as president of Egypt Muhammad Anwar el-Sadat changed Egypt's trajectory, departing from many of the political and economic tenets of Nasserism, re-instituting a multi-party system, and launching the Infitah economic policy. As President, he led Egypt in the Yom Kippur War of 1973 to regain Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, which Israel had occupied since the Six-Day War of 1967, making him a hero in Egypt and, for a time, the wider Arab World. Afterwards, he engaged in negotiations with Israel, culminating in the Egypt–Israel peace treaty; this won him and Menachem Begin the Nobel Peace Prize, making Sadat the first Muslim Nobel laureate.