El Sayed Yassin

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.{{Cite web|last=عبدالخالق|first=دينا|date=19 March 2017|title=السيد ياسين.. رحيل "سيد" التحليل السياسي الاجتماعي|url=https://www.elwatannews.com/news/details/1951297|access-date=24 February 2021|website=الوطن|language=ar}}

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.

• Principles of Social Research (original: Usus al-baḥth al-ijtimaāʻī) (1963){{Cite web|date=19 March 2017|title=المفكر الكبير "السيد ياسين" يرحل عن عالمنا.. انضم للإخوان فى شبابه قبل أن يتركهم ويمضى أغلب حياته فى معارك معهم.. أهم من كتب عن "علم الاجتماع السياسى" فى مصر.. ورئيس "مركز الأهرام للدراسات" 19 عاما|url=https://www.youm7.com/story/2017/3/19/المفكر-الكبير-السيد-ياسين-يرحل-عن-عالمنا-انضم-للإخوان-فى/3150918|access-date=21 March 2021|website=اليوم السابع}}{{Cite web|title=ما قبل الثورة.. مصر بين الأزمة والنهضة كتاب جديد للسيد ياسين|url=https://gate.ahram.org.eg/News/80581.aspx|access-date=21 March 2021|website=بوابة الأهرام}}
• 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)
• Zionism: A Racist Ideology (original: Aṣ-ṣohiōnīā: āīdoyoloǧiya ʿnṣorīa) (1977)
• Contemporary Criminal Policy: An Analytical Study of Social Defense Theory (original: al-Siyāsah al-jināʼīyah al-muʻāṣirah: dirāsah taḥlīlīyah li-naẓarīyat al-difāʻ al-ijtimāʻī) (1977)
• Studies in Criminal Behavior (original: Dirāsāt fī as-solōk al-iǧtimāʿī)
• Egypt Between Crisis and Advancement (original: Misr baina 'l-azma wa-'n-nahḍa)
• Analysis of the Concept of National Thought (original: th-līl mafhōm al-Fkr al-qawmī) (1987)
• Global Transformations and World Future (original: tḥawlāt al-omam wal-mstaqbl al-ʿālamī) (2010)
• Horizons of Knowledge in the Age of Globalization (2011){{Cite web|title=السيد ياسين السيد – مؤسسة سلطان بن علي العويس الثقافية|url=https://www.alowais.com/saidyasen/|access-date=21 March 2021|language=ar}}
• People on the Platform of History (original: al-shaʻb ʻalá minaṣṣat al-tārīkh) (2013)
• The Rise and Fall of Political Islam Movements (original: ṣoʿōd wṣoqōṭ ḥarakāt al-islām as-siyāsī)
• Post-Revolution: Developmental Time and Civilizational Modernization (original: mā bʿd aṯ-ṯawrā: az-zmn at-tanmwī wt-tḥdīṯ alḥḍārī)

• First Class of the Order of Merit (Jordan, 1992)
• Award for best book in human sciences for his book (Cairo International Book Fair, 1995)
• Medal of Sciences and Arts (Egypt, 1995){{Cite web|date=19 March 2017|title=وفاة المفكر المصري السيد ياسين بعد صراع مع المرض|url=https://www.alarabiya.net/culture-and-art/2017/03/19/وفاة-المفكر-المصري-السيد-يسين-بعد-صراع-مع-المرض|access-date=21 March 2021|website=العربية|language=ar}}{{Cite web|last=Fathi|first=Ahmed|date=19 March 2021|title="السيد ياسين .. قرن من الفكر" في مدرسة الوطنية و النزعة إلى الحرية|url=https://m.akhbarelyom.com/news/newdetails/3299060/1/-السيد-ياسين-..-قرن-من-الفكر--في-مدرسة-الوطنية-و-النزعة-إلى-الحرية|url-status=live|access-date=21 March 2021|website=بوابة اخبار اليوم|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210323153816/https://m.akhbarelyom.com/news/NewDetails/3299060/1/-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%AF-%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%86-..-%D9%82%D8%B1%D9%86-%D9%85%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D9%83%D8%B1--%D9%81%D9%8A-%D9%85%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B7%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%88-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86%D8%B2%D8%B9%D8%A9-%D8%A5%D9%84%D9%89-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A9 |archive-date=23 March 2021 }}
• State Merit Award in Social Sciences (Supreme Council of Culture, Egypt, 1996)
• Sultan Bin Ali Al Owais Cultural Award (United Arab Emirates, 2013){{Cite web|title=فوز "أبوسنة" والسيد ياسين وأحمد عتمان بجائزة "سلطان العويس" الثقافية {{!}} المصري اليوم|url=https://www.almasryalyoum.com/news/details/341918|access-date=24 February 2021|work=Al Masry Al Youm

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El Sayed Yassin died at Sheikh Zayed Specialized Hospital in 6 October city in the early morning hours of 19 March 2017.{{Cite web|title=وفاة المفكّر السياسي السيّد ياسين بعد صراعٍ مع المرض {{!}} المصري اليوم|url=https://www.almasryalyoum.com/news/details/1104359|access-date=24 February 2021|work=Al Masry Al Youm |language=ar}}

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