Cairo: Jehan Sadat, 87, the widow of the former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, the first Arab leader who made peace with Israel, died in Egypt on Friday, the State Government Office reported.
In recent weeks, local media reported that Jehan was at Egypt’s hospital and fighting cancer.
Last year, Jehan received medical treatment in the United States but shortly after he returned home, his condition had deteriorated, his family had told the local press.
There are no more details about the available diseases.
On Friday, the office of President Abdel Fattah El-Sissi lamented Jehan as a role model for Egyptian women, gave him a prestigious national award and announced the naming of the main highway in Cairo afterwards.
In August 1933, Jehan was born in Cairo to the father of the middle class of Egypt and the Indonesian mother.
In 1949, he married Anwar Sadat, a military officer at the time which later served as Egyptian President from 1970 to his murder in 1981.
The couple had given birth to three daughters, Noha, Gamal, Gamal, Gamal, Gamal.