# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/samir-amin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:51:18.088Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/samir-amin"
name: "Samir Amin"
slug: "samir-amin"
description: "Samir Amin was an Egyptian-French Marxian economist, political scientist and world-systems analyst. He is noted for his introduction of the term Eurocentrism in 1988 and considered a pioneer of dependency theory."
tagline: "Egyptian-French economist and political theorist (1931-2018)"
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birthDate: "1931-09-03"
deathDate: "2018-08-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump