Charles Issawi

Charles Philip Issawi (Arabic: تشارلز فيليب عيسوي; 1916 – 2000) was an Egyptian-born economist and historian of the Middle East at Columbia University and Princeton University in the United States. Roger Owen, the A. J. Meyer Professor of Middle East History at Harvard, stated that Issawi, "was the father of the study of the modern economic history of the Middle East."^[1]