Yezid Sayigh

<p>Yezid Sayigh  (born 1955) is a Palestinian academic. He is a senior fellow at the <a href="/facts/The_Malcolm_H._Kerr_Carnegie_Middle_East_Center/YGcQx7RT">Carnegie Middle East Center</a> in <a href="/facts/Beirut/0sxJRAqW">Beirut</a>, <a href="/facts/Lebanon/2dReTXyp">Lebanon</a>. Previously, he was a professor of Middle East Studies at the Department of War Studies at <a href="/facts/King%2527s_College_London/6qy3Y2hY">King's College London</a>, a member of the Academic Board of the Gulf Research Center, and a member of the board of trustees of the <a href="/facts/Palestinian_Center_for_Policy_and_Survey_Research/tREyvqqU">Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research</a> (PCPSR). From 1994 to 2003, he was the assistant director of studies at the Centre of International Studies at <a href="/facts/Cambridge_University/0la7aX9o">Cambridge University</a>. Sayigh also headed the Middle East Research Programme of the <a href="/facts/International_Institute_for_Strategic_Studies/tAeBSPd9">International Institute for Strategic Studies</a> (IISS) in London from 1998 to 2003. Sayigh was a negotiator of the 1994 <a href="/facts/Gaza%25E2%2580%2593Jericho_Agreement/7MIwm9tj">Gaza–Jericho Agreement</a> between the <a href="/facts/Palestine_Liberation_Organisation/9Kk16qMp">Palestine Liberation Organisation</a> and Israel. He headed the Palestinian delegation to the Multilateral Working Group on Arms Control and Regional Security (1992-1994), and was a MacArthur Scholar and Research Fellow at <a href="/facts/St_Antony%2527s_College%2c_Oxford/rfGJWnYD">St Antony's College, Oxford</a> (1990-1994). From 2005 to 2006, Sayigh was a visiting professor at the faculty of Political Studies and Public Administration at the <a href="/facts/American_University_of_Beirut/JRF8pgPg">American University of Beirut</a>.
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Yezid Sayigh