Syed Hussein Alatas, Malaysian sociologist and politician (born 1928)

Syed Hussein Alatas

Malaysian academic, sociologist and politician

Syed Hussein Alatas bin Syed Ali Alatas was a Malaysian academic, sociologist, politician, and founder of social science organisations. He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Malaya in the 1980s and formed the Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia (Gerakan). Syed Hussein wrote…