Egyptian-French economist Samir Amin died on Sunday at the age of 86. The man who coined the term eurocentrism was born in Cairo in 1931 and spent most of his childhood in Port Said, according to Ahram Online. He moved on to write a number of books and worked extensively in the field of developmental economics, ending his career as the director of the Third World Forum, a research institute engaged in the discourse about various economic development paths.