Charles Issawi

Charles Issawi (* 1916 in Cairo, † December 8, 2000 in the U.S. ) was an economic historian.

He was born the son of a Syrian Orthodox family and was educated at Victoria College in Alexandria and later at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he specialized in economics and history. He worked for a year in Cairene Ministry of Finance and head of the research department of the Egyptian National Bank until 1943. Shortly he was in the Arab Office in Washington DC and to 1955 in the Middle East Division of the UN Secretariat. From 1943 to 1947 he taught as a professor of political science politics and economics at the American University of Beirut. In New York's Columbia University, he joined in 1951, where he was appointed Ragnar Nurkse Professor of Economics. There he headed the Near and Middle East Institute. After Princeton he was born in 1975, where he held the Bayard E. Dodge Professor of Middle East Studies until his retirement in 1986.

Works

• Cross - cultural encounters and conflicts, Oxford Univ. Press, 1998
• The Middle East economy, Markus Wiener Pub, 1995
• The economic dimensions of Middle Eastern history, Darwin Press, 1990
• An economic history of the Middle East and North Africa, Methuen 1982
• The Arab world 's legacy, The Darwin Press, 1981
• The economic history of Turkey, Univ. of Chicago Press, 1980
• The economic history of the Middle East, Univ. of Chicago Press, 1975
• Oil, the Middle East and the world, Sage, 1972
• The economic history of Iran, Univ. of Chicago Press, 1971
• Iqtiṣādīyāt batrūl aš - SARQ al - Awsat, Mu ʾ al - ʿ Arab assasat Siǧill, 1966
• The economic history of the Middle East, Univ. of Chicago Press, 1966
• Egypt in Revolution, Oxford Univ. Press, 1963
• The economics of Middle Eastern Oil, Praeger, Faber & Faber, 1962
• Egypt, Oxford Univ. Press, 1947