Samir Amin (Photo: Ahram Online)
World economist Samir Amin has released a new book entitled Naqd Al-Khitab Al-Arabi Arrahin (Critique of the Contemporary Arab Discourse), from the General Egyptian Book Organisation.
The author of The Liberal Virus has collected four studies that provide a critique of contemporary dominant discourses in Egypt and the Arab region.
The book is divided into four chapters, Critique of Capitalism, Critique of Pan-Arabism, Political Religion, and Adjusting Concepts.
Amin was born in Egypt in 1931 to an Egyptian father and French mother and spent his youth in Port Said. After studying in Egypt he continued his diploma in political science in Paris in 1952, before getting a degree in statistics and then a doctorate in economics.
He worked first in Cairo at the Institute for Economic Management from 1957 to 1960 then moved between countries until becoming director of the Third World Forum in Dakar, Senegal in 1980.
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