Anouar Abdel-Malek (Arabic: أنور عبد الملك), (23 October 1924 – 15 June 2012) was an Egyptian-French political scientist. He was a

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and

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.Sayed Mahmoud
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'', 18 June 2012 Born to a

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family, Anouar Abdel-Malek gained a bachelor's degree in philosophy in 1954 from

Ain Shams University Ain Shams University () is a public university located in Cairo, Egypt. Founded in 1950, the university provides education at the undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate levels. History Ain Shams University was founded in July 1950, the third ...

before studying for a doctorate at the Sorbonne. He subsequently joined the

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, becoming head of research there in 1970.

Works

* ''Égypte : société militaire'', 1962. Translated by Charles Lam Markmann as ''Egypt: military society; the army regime, the left, and social change under Nasser'', 1968. * ''Anthologie de la littérature arabe contemporaine'', 1964 * ''Idéologie et renaissance nationale, l'Égypte moderne'', 1969 * ''La Pensée politique arabe contemporaine'', 1970. Translated by Michael Pallis as ''Contemporary Arab political thought'', 1983 * (ed.) ''Sociologie de l'impérialisme'', 1971 * ''La dialectique sociale'', 1972. Translated by Mike Gonzalez as ''Social dialectics'', 2 vols., 1980. * ''Nation and revolution'', 1981 * (ed. with Miroslav Pečujlićand Gregory Blue) ''Science and technology in the transformation of the world'', 1982 * (ed. with Ānisujjāmāna) ''Culture and thought in the transformation of the world'', 1983.

References

1924 births 2012 deaths Academics from Cairo Ain Shams University alumni Egyptian Arab nationalists Egyptian Marxists Egyptian people of Coptic descent French male writers French people of Coptic descent French political scientists University of Paris alumni Egyptian emigrants to France {{Egypt-bio-stub