Georges Corm
Appearance
Georges Corm | |
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جورج قرم | |
Minister of Finance | |
In office 4 December 1998 – 26 October 2000 | |
President | Émile Lahoud |
Prime Minister | Salim El Hoss |
Preceded by | Rafik Hariri |
Succeeded by | Fuad Siniora |
Personal details | |
Born | citation needed] Bint Jbeil, Lebanon[citation needed] | 15 June 1940[
Died | 14 August 2024 Beirut, Lebanon | (aged 84)
Relatives | Daoud Corm (grandfather) Charles Corm (uncle) |
Alma mater | Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris Paris University |
Website | https://georgescorm.com/ |
Georges Corm (Arabic: جورج قرم; 15 June[citation needed] 1940 – 14 August 2024) was a Lebanese economist. He served as minister of finance in the government of Salim Hoss from 1998 to 2000.[1]
Life and career
[edit]Corm was born to parents of Lebanese, Syrian and Palestinian descent.[2] He studied at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (1958–1961) where he graduated in Public Finance and has also a PhD from Paris University in Constitutional Law (1969).[citation needed]
His books have been translated into several languages. In 2018, he was the recipient of the Prix de l'essai for his work La Nouvelle Question d’Orient.[citation needed]
Corm died in Beirut on 14 August 2024, at the age of 84.[3]
Select bibliography
[edit]- Le Nouveau Gouvernement du Monde (Idéologies, Structures, Contre-Pouvoirs) (La Découverte, 2010)
- L’Europe et le Mythe de l’Occident (La Construction d’une Histoire) (La Découverte, 2009)
- Histoire du Moyen-Orient (De l'Antiquité à nos jours) (La Découverte/Poche, 2007)
- Le Proche-Orient éclaté (1956–2012) (Gallimard/Histoire)
- Orient-Occident, la fracture imaginaire (La découverte, 2002 and 2004)
- L'Europe et l'Orient : de la balkanisation à la libanisation. Histoire d'une modernité inaccomplie (La découverte, 1998, 2001 and 2003)
- Le Liban contemporain. Histoire et société (La découverte, 2003 and 2005)
- Histoire du pluralisme religieux dans le bassin méditerranéen (Geuthner, 1998)
- Le Nouveau Désordre économique mondial (La découverte, 1993)
- La Mue (roman, 1989)
- Le Moyen-Orient (Flammarion/dominos, 1994)
- La Question religieuse au XXIe siècle. Géopolitique et crise de la post-modernité (La découverte, 2006)
- Le nouveau gouvernement du monde – Idéologies, structures, contre-pouvoirs (La découverte, 2010)[citation needed]
References
[edit]- ^ "Former Ministers". 18 December 2019. Archived from the original on 18 December 2019.
- ^ Yégavian, Tigrane (21 June 2020). "Entretien avec Georges Corm. "Nous vivons en enfer depuis 1956"". Conflits : Revue de Géopolitique (in French). Retrieved 18 December 2023.
- ^ L'historien et ancien ministre Georges Corm n'est plus (in French)
External links
[edit]- Corm's personal website
- The Public Budget: An instrument for State Modernization published in Assadissa-Journal of Public Finance and State Modernization by the Institut des Finances Basil Fuleihan
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