Quote of the day
My husband is exceedingly busy. For some time the talk of his going had been slack, but just now again there seems to be a move to get him sent to the front!
Charles Issawi

Born: 1916
Died: December 8, 2000 (aged 84)
Bio: Charles Issawi was a prominent academic economist and historian of the Middle East at Columbia University and Princeton University in the United States. Roger Owen, the A. J.
Known for:
- Issawi's laws of social motion (1973)
- Egypt in Revolution: An Economic Analysis (1963)
- The Arab World's Legacy (1981)
- Growing Up Different (1999)