Jalal Al-e-Ahmad, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jalal Al-e-Ahmad

writer, thinker, and social and political critic.

Date of Birth: 02-Dec-1923

Place of Birth: Tehran, Tehran Province, Iran

Date of Death: 09-Sep-1969

Profession: writer, teacher, politician, translator, artist, sociologist, anthropologist, philosopher, novelist

Nationality: Iran

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Seyyed Jalal Al-e-Ahmad (Persian: ???? ????????; December 2, 1923 – September 9, 1969) was a prominent Iranian novelist, short-story writer, translator, philosopher, socio-political critic, sociologist as well as an anthropologist who was "one of the earliest and most prominent of contemporary Iranian ethnographers".
He popularized the term gharbzadegi – variously translated in English as "westernstruck", "westoxification", and "Occidentosis" –, producing a holistic ideological critique of the West "which combined strong themes of Frantz Fanon and Marx".