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. Early life. He graduated from the college of law of Alexandria University, then obtained a master's in sociology and political science from Cairo University. He worked at the National Center for Social and Criminological Research before traveling to France to study law at the University of Dijon (1964–1966) and social sciences at the University of Paris (1966), during that time he took an interest in literary sociology, which was  still emerging, as well as political sociology. 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. During that time, Yassin established the Social Studies Unit. Yassin was Secretary-General of the Arab Thought Forum in Jordan (1990–1997). He worked as Assistant to the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and as Director of the Ministry of Scientific Research. He  was a professor of political sociology at the National Center for Social and Criminological Research and as Chairman of the Local Monitoring Committee and was a member of the Supreme Council for Culture. Death. El Sayed Yassin died at Sheikh Zayed Specialized Hospital in 6 October city in the early morning hours of 19 March 2017.