Galal Amin

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Galal Ahmad Amin (Arabic : جلال أمين; 1935 – 25 September 2018) was an award-winning professor of economics at the American University in Cairo and Egyptian economist and commentator. [1] [2] He was critical of the economic and cultural dependency of Egypt upon the West. [3] [4] [5]

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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 Cairo University, graduating LL.B. in 1955 before studying for diplomas in economics and public law. Receiving a government grant to study in Britain, Amin gained a M.S. (1961) and Ph.D. (1964) in economics from London School of Economics. From 1964 to 1974, he taught economics at Ain Shams University, also working as economic advisor for the Kuwait Fund for Economic Development from 1969 to 1974. After a year's teaching at UCLA in 1978–1979, Amin joined the American University in Cairo. [1] He also contributed a weekly column to Al-Shorouk for several years. [6]


Historian Albert Hourani describes Amin's writing as "forceful," particularly his argument in Mihnat al- iqtisad wa’l-thaqafa fi Misr (The Plight of the Economy and Culture in Egypt), among his better known books, which:

"...tried to trace the connections between the infitah and a crisis of culture. The Egyptian and other Arab peoples had lost confidence in themselves...the infitah, and indeed the whole movement of events since the 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]

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References

  1. 1 2 Michael R. Fischbach, 'Amin, Galal (1935-)', in Biographical Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa. Online (subscription only) at HighBeam.
  2. ↑ "رحيل المفكر المصري البارز جلال أمين". www.aljazeera.net (in Arabic). Retrieved 2022-02-01.
  3. ↑ Boullata, Issa J. (1990). Trends and issues in contemporary Arab thought. State University of New York Press. pp. 99–105. ISBN   978-0-7914-0194-1 . Retrieved 8 September 2012.
  4. 1 2 Hourani, Albert. "A Disturbance of Spirits (since 1967).” In A History of the Arab Peoples. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belnap Press of Harvard University Press, 1991.
  5. ↑ "كتاب جديد يؤرخ السيرة الذاتية لجلال أمين". www.aljazeera.net (in Arabic). Retrieved 2022-02-01.
  6. ↑ "Galal Amin | International Prize for Arabic Fiction". arabicfiction.org. Retrieved 2022-02-01.
  7. ↑ "رحيل المفكر المصري البارز جلال أمين". www.aljazeera.net (in Arabic). Retrieved 2022-02-01.
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