Anouar Abdel-Malek

Anouar Abdel-Malek
Born	(1924-10-23)23 October 1924 Cairo, Egypt
Died	15 June 2012(2012-06-15) (aged 87) Paris, France
Nationality	Egyptian
Education	Ain Shams University Faculté des lettres de Paris
Occupation	Political scientist

Anouar Abdel-Malek (Arabic: أنور عبد الملك), (23 October 1924 – 15 June 2012) was an Egyptian-French political scientist. He was a pan-Arabist and Marxist.^[1][2]

Born to a Coptic Christian family, Anouar Abdel-Malek gained a bachelor's degree in philosophy in 1954 from Ain Shams University before studying for a doctorate at the Sorbonne. He subsequently joined the CNRS, becoming head of research there in 1970.^[2]

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

1. Nkrumah, Gamal (16–22 March 2006). "Anouar Abdel-Malek: And the light flickers on". Profile. Al-Ahram. Retrieved 31 August 2012.
2. Sayed Mahmoud, Anouar Abdel-Malek, champion of pan-Arabism, dies at 88, Ahram Online, 18 June 2012