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Samir was born in Egypt in 1931 to an Egyptian father and a French mother. Both his parents were medical doctors and came from bourgeois society, but they were not reactionary, he says. His mother came from a family of convinced Jacobins, whereas his father was a left-wing ‘wafdist’, a bourgeois democrat with nationalist beliefs, but modernist nationalist beliefs that, culturally speaking, were not anti-European.
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This text was first published as “Notes bibliographiques”, in: Demba Moussa Dembélè (Ed.): Samir Amin, Intellectuel organique au service de l’Emancipation du Sud (Dakar: Codesria, 2011). This text was translated from French into English by Charlène Cabot, Sète (France) and language-edited by Mike Headon, Colwyn Bay, Wales (UK). More information on Samir Amin, including links to his podcasts and a selection of the covers of his major books are at: http://www.afes-press-books.de/html/SpringerBriefs_PSP_Amin.htm.
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Amin, S. (2014). Biographical Notes. In: Samir Amin. SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice, vol 16. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01116-5_1
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