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The Egyptian-born social scientist and activist Samir Amin wrote extensively on political economy and the challenges for the peripheral..
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Samir Amin
Egyptian-French economist and political scientist (1931–2018)
Samir Amin (Arabic: سمير أمين) (3 September 1931 – 12 August 2018) was an Egyptian-French Marxian economist,[1]political scientist and world-systems analyst.
He is noted for his introduction of the term Eurocentrism in 1988[2] and considered a pioneer of dependency theory.[3]
Biography
Amin was born in Cairo, the son of a French mother and an Egyptian father (both medical doctors).
He spent his childhood and youth in Port Said; there he attended a French high school, leaving in 1947 with a Baccalauréat.
It was at high school that Amin was first politicized when, during the Second World War, Egyptian students were split between communists and nationalists; Amin belonged to the former group.
By then Amin had already adopted a resolute stance against fascism and Nazism. While the upheaval against British domination in Egypt informed his politics, he rejected the idea tha
