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Georges Corm (Arabic: جورج قرم; 15 June 1940 – 14 August 2024) was a Lebanese economist. He served as minister of finance in the government of Salim Hoss from 1998 to 2000.

Life and career

Corm was born to parents of Lebanese, Syrian and Palestinian descent. 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).

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.

Corm died in Beirut on 14 August 2024, at the age of 84.

Select bibliography

• 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 XXI siècle. Géopolitique et crise de la post-modernité (La découverte, 2006)
• Le nouveau gouvernement du monde – Idéologies, structures, contre-pouvoirs (La découverte, 2010)

References

1. "Former Ministers". 18 December 2019. Archived from the original on 18 December 2019.
2. 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.
3. L'historien et ancien ministre Georges Corm n'est plus (in French)

External links

• 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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