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{{Short description|Egyptian economist (1935–2018)}}
'''Galal Ahmad Amin''' (born 1935) is an [[Egyptian people|Egyptian]] economist and commentator, professor of economics at the [[American University in Cairo]].<ref name=BEMMENA>Michael R. Fischbach, 'Amin, Galal (1935-)', in ''Biographical Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa''. [http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-2830800048.html Online] (subscription only) at [[HighBeam]].</ref> He has criticized the economic and cultural [[Dependency theory|dependency]] of Egypt upon the West.<ref name="Boullata1990">{{cite book|last=Boullata|first=Issa J.|authorlink=Issa J. Boullata|title=Trends and issues in contemporary Arab thought|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=iG1tAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=8 September 2012|year=1990|publisher=State University of New York Press|isbn=978-0-7914-0194-1|pages=99–105}}</ref>
'''Galal Ahmad Amin''' ({{lang-ar|جلال أمين}}; 1935 &ndash; 25 September 2018) was an award-winning professor of economics at the [[American University in Cairo]] and [[Egyptian people|Egyptian]] economist and commentator.<ref name=BEMMENA>Michael R. Fischbach, 'Amin, Galal (1935-)', in ''Biographical Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa''. [https://web.archive.org/web/20160911063804/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-2830800048.html Online] (subscription only) at [[HighBeam]].</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=رحيل المفكر المصري البارز جلال أمين|url=https://www.aljazeera.net/news/cultureandart/2018/9/26/رحيل-المفكر-المصري-البارز-جلال-أمين|access-date=2022-02-01|website=www.aljazeera.net|language=ar}}</ref> He was critical of the economic and cultural [[Dependency theory|dependency]] of Egypt upon [[Western world|the West]].<ref name="Boullata1990">{{cite book|last=Boullata|first=Issa J.|authorlink=Issa J. Boullata|title=Trends and issues in contemporary Arab thought|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iG1tAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=8 September 2012|year=1990|publisher=State University of New York Press|isbn=978-0-7914-0194-1|pages=99–105}}</ref><ref name=":0">Hourani, Albert. "A Disturbance of Spirits (since 1967).” In ''A History of the Arab Peoples.'' Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belnap Press of Harvard University Press, 1991. </ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=كتاب جديد يؤرخ السيرة الذاتية لجلال أمين|url=https://www.aljazeera.net/news/cultureandart/2007/5/28/كتاب-جديد-يؤرخ-السيرة-الذاتية-لجلال|access-date=2022-02-01|website=www.aljazeera.net|language=ar}}</ref>


==Biography==
==Biography==
Galal Amin was born in [[Egypt]] in 1935, the son of judge and academic [[Ahmad Amin]]. He 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]].<ref name=BEMMENA/>
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]].<ref name="BEMMENA" /> He also contributed a weekly column to ''[[Al-Shorouk]]'' for several years.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Galal Amin {{!}} International Prize for Arabic Fiction|url=https://arabicfiction.org/en/Galal-Amin|access-date=2022-02-01|website=arabicfiction.org}}</ref>


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:<blockquote>"...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."<ref name=":0">Hourani, Albert. "A Disturbance of Spirits (since 1967).” In ''A History of the Arab Peoples.'' Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belnap Press of Harvard University Press, 1991. </ref></blockquote>Amin died on 25 September 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|title=رحيل المفكر المصري البارز جلال أمين|url=https://www.aljazeera.net/news/cultureandart/2018/9/26/رحيل-المفكر-المصري-البارز-جلال-أمين|access-date=2022-02-01|website=www.aljazeera.net|language=ar}}</ref>


==Published works==
==Published works==
{{Incomplete list|date=February 2022}}
* ''Food supply and economic development; with special reference to Egypt'', 1966
* ''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
* ''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 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
* ''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.
* ''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
* ''Egypt in the Era of Hosni Mubarak (1981-2011)'', 2011
* ''Whatever Happened to the Egyptian Revolution?, ''2014. Translated by [[Jonathan Wright (translator)|Jonathan Wright]].
* ''Whatever Happened to the Egyptian Revolution?, ''2014. Translated by [[Jonathan Wright (translator)|Jonathan Wright]].
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==External links==
==External links==
* [http://www.aucegypt.edu/fac/Profiles/Pages/GalalAmin.aspx AUC webpage]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120214052644/http://www.aucegypt.edu/fac/Profiles/Pages/GalalAmin.aspx AUC webpage]
* [http://www.aucegypt.edu/Business/faculty/Documents/CV%20-%20Dr.%20Galal%20Amin%20-%20February%202012.pdf Curriculum Vitae]
* [http://www.aucegypt.edu/Business/faculty/Documents/CV%20-%20Dr.%20Galal%20Amin%20-%20February%202012.pdf Curriculum Vitae]{{Dead link|date=December 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
* [http://en.qantara.de/A-Radical-Break-with-the-Past/7223c7292i1p627/ A Radical Break with the Past: Interview with Susanne Schanda], 25 March 2011. Translated from the German by Aingeal Flanagan
* [http://en.qantara.de/A-Radical-Break-with-the-Past/7223c7292i1p627/ A Radical Break with the Past: Interview with Susanne Schanda], 25 March 2011. Translated from the German by Aingeal Flanagan


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Latest revision as of 11:03, 8 February 2023

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]

Biography[edit]

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]

Published works[edit]

  • 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[edit]

  1. ^ a b 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. ^ 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.
  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.

External links[edit]

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