SADAT ESSAY FOR PEACE COMPETITION

A Competition Open to High School Students in the State of Maryland

Sponsored by the Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace and Development  & the Office of Undergraduate Admissions University of Maryland, College Park

The Sadat Essay for Peace, held in conjunction with the Sadat Lecture, was established at the University of Maryland in the fall of 2002.  The project encourages young people to think about issues related to world peace, and to contemplate the impact that President Sadat’s legacy of working  toward peace has had on those issues.

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Read the winning essays, in conjunction with the Sadat Lecture for Peace delivered by James Baker, Former Secretary of State, on April 14, 2005

First Prize Winner - "The Works of an Individual" by Kathy Wang of Montgomery Blair High School

Second Prize Winner - "A Disease and its Cure" by Belachew Telahun of Wheaton High School

Read the winning essays, in conjunction with the Sadat Lecture for Peace delivered by Mary Robinson, Former President of Ireland, on March 17, 2004

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First Prize Winner - "Anwar Sadat: Warrior for Peace" by Andrew Bowen - Severna Park High School

Second Prize Winner - "The Path to Peace: Understanding the Other" by Joel A. Fox, Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School

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Read the winning essays, in conjunction with the Sadat Lecture for Peace delivered by United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan on November 13, 2002:

First Prize Winner - "You May Say I am a Dreamer" by Lacy Ketzner - St. James High School

Second Prize Winner - "Tranquility Before Violence" by Sam Wen - Montgomery Blair High School