Galal Amin
Galal Ahmad Amin (
Egyptian economist and commentator.[1][2] He was critical of the economic and cultural dependency of Egypt upon the West.[3][4][5]
Biography
Amin was born in Egypt in 1935, the son of judge and academic Ahmad Amin. Hussein Ahmad Amin, an Egyptian writer and diplomat, was his brother.
Amin studied at
the American University in Cairo.[1] He also contributed a weekly column to Al-Shorouk for several years.[6]
Historian
Egyptian revolution of 1952, had rested on an unsound basis: the false values of a consumer society in economic life, the domination of a ruling élite instead of genuine patriotic loyalty. Egyptians were importing whatever foreigners persuaded them that they should want, and this made for a permanent dependence. To be healthy, their political and economic life should be derived from their own moral values, which themselves could have no basis except in religion."[4]
Amin died on 25 September 2018.[7]
Published works
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- Food Supply and Economic Development; With Special Reference to Egypt, 1966
- The Modernization of Poverty : A study in the political economy of growth in nine Arab countries 1945-1970, 1974
- Egypt's Economic Predicament : a study in the interaction of external pressure, political folly, and social tension in Egypt, 1960-1990, 1995
- 'Whatever Happened to the Egyptians: changes in Egyptian society from 1950 to the present, AUC Press, 2000
- Whatever Else Happened to the Egyptians: from the revolution to the age of globalization, AUC Press, 2004
- The Illusion of Progress in the Arab world: A Critique of Western Misconstructions, 2005. Translated by David Wilmsen.
- Egypt in the Era of Hosni Mubarak (1981-2011), 2011
- Whatever Happened to the Egyptian Revolution?, 2014. Translated by Jonathan Wright.
References
- ^ HighBeam.
- ^ "رحيل المفكر المصري البارز جلال أمين". www.aljazeera.net (in Arabic). Retrieved 2022-02-01.
- ISBN 978-0-7914-0194-1. Retrieved 8 September 2012.
- ^ a b Hourani, Albert. "A Disturbance of Spirits (since 1967).” In A History of the Arab Peoples. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belnap Press of Harvard University Press, 1991.
- ^ "كتاب جديد يؤرخ السيرة الذاتية لجلال أمين". www.aljazeera.net (in Arabic). Retrieved 2022-02-01.
- ^ "Galal Amin | International Prize for Arabic Fiction". arabicfiction.org. Retrieved 2022-02-01.
- ^ "رحيل المفكر المصري البارز جلال أمين". www.aljazeera.net (in Arabic). Retrieved 2022-02-01.
External links
- AUC webpage
- Curriculum Vitae[permanent dead link]
- A Radical Break with the Past: Interview with Susanne Schanda, 25 March 2011. Translated from the German by Aingeal Flanagan
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