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] Issawi was born in 1916 in Cairo, Egypt, to Greek Orthodox, Syrian parents.
He joined Columbia University in 1951 and became the Ragnar Nurkse Professor of Economics.
[2] From 1975 until he retired in 1986, he was the Bayard E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University.