The Arab Students Organization at MIT in conjunction with Islamic Jurisprudence Workshop at the Harvard Law School
is proud to present:

DR. SAMIR AMIN  

"Impacts of Globalization on the Arab World"  

March 17, 1998, 7:00pm, at MIT Room 1-390, 77 Massachusetts Avenue  

Professor Amin is a leading economist in the field of development studies. He is currently the director of the Third World Forum - African Bureau and the UN African Institute for Economic Development (1970). Earlier in his career, Dr. Amin served as Technical Advisor for Planning to the Government of Mali (1960-63). Dr. Amin teaches economics at the Universities of Poitiers, Paris and Dakar. He has published numerous treatises on law, civil society, socialism, colonialism and development particularly in Africa and the Arab and Islamic Worlds.  The following is a selected list of his books:  

Capitalism in the Age of Globalization: The Management of Contemporary Society (1997); Dialogue of State and Religion (1996); Empire of Chaos (1992); Eurocentrism (1989); Delinking: Toward a Polycentric World (1985); Arab Economies Today (1984); Unequal Development: An Essay on the Social Formations of Peripheral Capitalism (1976); Accumulation on a World Scale: A Critique of the Theory of Underdevelopment (1970).