Syed Hussein Alatas, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Syed Hussein Alatas

Malaysian politician

Date of Birth: 17-Sep-1928

Place of Birth: Bogor, Indonesia

Date of Death: 23-Jan-2007

Profession: writer, politician, lecturer, sociologist

Nationality: Malaysia

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Syed Hussein Alatas (Arabic: ??? ???? ??????? Sayyid ?usayn al-?A??as; 17 September 1928 – 23 January 2007) was a Malaysian academician, sociologist, founder of social science organisations, and politician.
He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Malaya in the 1980s and formed the Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia (Gerakan).
Syed Hussein wrote several books on corruption, multi-racialism, imperialism, and intellectual captivity as part of the colonial, and postcolonial, project, the most famous being The Myth of the Lazy Native.