El Sayed Yassin

El Sayed Yassin (. 3 September 1933 – 19 March 2017) was an Egyptian political and social writer and intellectual. He was born in Alexandria on 30 October 1931.

Upon his return to Egypt, El Sayed Yassin joined the Centre for Palestinian and Zionist Studies in Al-Ahram in 1968, which journalist Mohammed Hussein Heikal renamed to the Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, Yassin participated in co-founding the centre and chaired it from 1975 to 1994. Social Analysis of Research (original: at-fẖlīl aliǧtīmāʿī līl adb) (1970) The Arab Personality: Between Self-Image and the Concept of the Other (original: Aš-šẖṣīa alʿrabīa: bayn ṣōrt Aḏ-ḏāt wmfhōm alāẖir) (1973) People on the Platform of History (original: al-shaʻb ʻalá minaṣṣat al-tārīkh) (2013) State Merit Award in Social Sciences (Supreme Council of Culture, Egypt, 1996)

Death El Sayed Yassin died at Sheikh Zayed Specialized Hospital in 6 October City in the early morning hours of 19 March 2017.