The Nobel Prize laureate and human rights activist Tawakkol Karman has sent her condolences on the death of Egyptian professor Samir Amin.

"I extend sincere condolences to the Egyptian people and to all the Arab people on the loss of the great Egyptian thinker Samir Amin," wrote Mrs. Karman in condolence letter posted on Twitter.

Professor Samir Amin, aged 87, passed away on Sunday evening in a hospital in Paris, where he had been flown for emergency treatment at the end of July.

Amin was born in Cairo to an Egyptian father and a French mother. He spent his childhood and youth in Port Said where he attended a French high school, leaving in 1947 with a Baccalauréat.

As a world-system thinker, Samir Amin was a convinced adherent of multipolarity, and used to look forward to seeing the construction of a multipolar world.