Anwar Sadat's widow walked into Cincinnati's uneasy peace Tuesday with her own story of the heavy price that peace sometimes demands.

        She emphasized her triumph — through charitable pursuits and intellectual challenges — over the grief that once consumed her.

Jehan Sadat

        “All despair is followed by hope; all darkness is followed by sunshine,” Jehan Sadat told a sold-out crowd at the Aronoff Center. “This is the optimism that guides me. Without it I could not survive the death of my husband.”

        Anwar Sadat, who as president of Egypt achieved a historic peace with Israel, was assassinated in 1982 in front of his wife.

        Today she teaches at the University of Maryland and promotes her husband's message of peace. Her speech was the third in the Enquirer's “Unique Lives & Experiences” series. The series brings to the city famous women whose life stories offer inspiration and intellectual enrichment.

        In an interview before her speech, Mrs. Sadat said she had been following Cincinnati's unrest on the news. Her eyes clouded with concern as she called for negotiation and compromise on both sides.

        Her husband “wanted to put an end to bloodshed and save his sons from being killed in war,” she said. “He believed in peace as a mission. He didn't think of himself or his position. He didn't think of anything except to make peace so people could live in prosperity.”
       

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