Ilios Yannakakis
Ilios Yannakakis (born 1931 in Cairo) is a French historian and political scientist of Greek descent,[1]and professor emeritus at the University of Lille III.A former leftist , in recent years he has associated with neoconservative causes and organisations.
He joined the Communist Party of Greece and after the Greek Civil War of 1946-1949 he fled to Paris and eventually to communist Czechoslovakia. There he fell victim of purge of the communist party. After the death of Joseph Stalin he continued lecturing. He was engaged in struggle for human rights and after the defeat of the Prague Spring he fled to France.
In 2003 he became the editorial board of the Le Meilleur des mondes, a magazine of the French think tank Cercle de l'Oratoire. In 2012 he was listed as a Board member of the Paris based Jean-Jacques Rousseau Institute.[2]
Books
- Premier retour de Bagdad (with Pierre Rigoulot), 1998, ISBN 2-226-11432-7
- Un Pavé dans l'histoire. Le débat français sur "Le Livre noir du communisme" (with Pierre Rigoulot), 1998, ISBN 2-221-08882-4
- Alexandrie 1860-1960. Un modèle éphémère de convivialité : Communautés et identité cosmopolite (with Robert Ilbert), 1998, ISBN 2-86260-392-9
- Histoire du monde (withAndré Berelowitch, a textbook), 1986, ISBN 2-218-07516-4
Notes
- ↑ Hamouda, Sahar ad Clement, Colin 2002 Victoria College: a history'' , American Univ in Cairo Press isbn=978-977-424-756-9 pages=137
- ↑ JJRI Qui Sommes Nous - About Us, accessed 8 June 2012
