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Tarek Heggy was born on 12 October, 1950 in Port Said, Kingdom of Egypt, is an Egyptian author. Discover Tarek Heggy's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 73 years old?
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Writer, intellectual, international petroleum strategist |
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73 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Libra |
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12 October 1950 |
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12 October |
| Birthplace |
Port Said, Kingdom of Egypt |
| Nationality |
Egypt
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Tarek Heggy Height, Weight & Measurements
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Dating & Relationship status
He is currently single. He is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about He's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, He has no children.
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Tarek Heggy Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Tarek Heggy worth at the age of 73 years old? Tarek Heggy’s income source is mostly from being a successful Writer. He is from Egypt. We have estimated Tarek Heggy's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Tarek Heggy (طارق حجى, ; born October 12, 1950) is an Egyptian liberal author, political thinker and international petroleum strategist.
Heggy is one of Egypt’s more prominent authors on the subject of Egypt’s need for political reform.
His extensive writings advocate the values of modernity, democracy, tolerance, and women's rights in the Middle East – advancing them as universal values essential to the region's progress.
He has lectured at universities throughout the world and various international institutions and think tanks, including The Heritage Foundation, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and the Council on Foreign Relations.
Heggy's main themes are the need for economic, political, cultural and educational reforms in Egypt and the Middle East.
He emphasizes respect for individual rights and the power of human reason to drive the sciences forward.
He is an advocate of creativity and the arts, gender equality, free markets, non-sectarian public administration, and the utilization of modern management techniques.
From 1973 till 1979 he was associate professor of Law at Constantine University/Algeria and the University of Fes/Morocco.
Since April 1978, Tarek Heggy has written 19 books In Arabic (plus 15 in English, French & Italian).
In July 1979, Heggy joined a major gas and oil company as an attorney (1979–1985) and went on to become deputy to the Chairman of its Egypt branch (1985–1988).
In 1988 he became its Chairman and CEO, from which he resigned on July 1, 1996.
Heggy participated in establishing (in 2000) the "Chair of Coptic Studies" at the American University in Cairo as well as the Tarek Heggy Graduate Scholarship for Jewish-Muslim Relations at the University of Toronto.
Heggy received the 2008 Grinzane Cavour Award for cultural and literary achievement as well as the Tenth Anniversary Award Recipients/Arab World Books' Writers.
Tarek Heggy’s two books (published just before the Arab Spring), The Arab Cocoon (2010) and The Arab Mind Bound (2011), examine if and why the Arab world is resistant to Western forms of progress.
Heggy puts forth that it is Arab culture, broadly construed, that is holding the region back.
He believes that neither U.S. foreign policy nor the existence of Israel are the primary reasons for this.
Nor does he believe European colonialism, the global capitalist system, or the league of autocratic rulers who clung (and in places, continue to cling) to power thanks to oil revenues or outside military aid are the causes.
Heggy draws on his cosmopolitan background, business experience, and discussions with public intellectuals of every persuasion to critique Arab culture.
The mindset Heggy describes is prone to a literal, politicized version of Islam, which is a major contributor to the Arab malaise.
The core of Heggy’s most important contention is encapsulated by this metaphor in The Arab Mind Bound: Arab culture is “shackled with two heavy chains”: attached to one is the species of Islam promulgated by Saudi Wahhabis and to a lesser extent, the Muslim Brotherhood; attached to the other is a dysfunctional educational system that perpetuates the “defective thought processes, intellectual distortions and negative delusions” that yield endemic stagnation in every sphere.
It follows that no attempt to address the myriad political and economic problems facing the Arab-Islamic world will be successful without religious, cultural, and educational reforms.
According to Bernard Lewis, a Cleveland E. Dodge Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, Heggy is a "courageous and distinctive voice from Egypt" and provides "a candid and provocative inside view of the current problems of the Arab world."
Heggy has participated in the BBC/Doha Debate on the Separation of Mosque and State.
Heggy studied law (LL.B & LL.M) at Ain Shams University in Cairo, followed by higher degrees in Modern Management Techniques from the International Management Institute of Geneva University.
