Birth: NULL/NULL/1955 Death:NULL/NULL/NULL
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1955; son of Yusif Sayigh; moved with his parents to Beirut in 1956; received a BSc in Chemistry from the AUB in 1979; earned a PhD in War Studies from King’s College London, University of London, in 1987; was a MacArthur Scholar and Research Fellow at St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford, from 1990-1994; served as an advisor to the Palestinian delegation during the bilateral Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, 1991-93; headed the Palestinian delegation to the Multilateral Working Group on Arms Control and Regional Security during 1992-94; then was a member of the delegation that negotiated the Israel-PLO Agreement on the Gaza Strip and Jericho area, 1993-1994; taught International Politics and served as Assistant Director of Studies at the Centre of International Studies, University of Cambridge, from 1994-2003; also directed the Middle East Program at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London from 1998-2003; has been a visiting Professor or scholar at the AUB, SOAS at London University, Brown University, and the Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales in Paris; is a member of the editorial or advisory boards of Nations and Nationalism, Cambridge Middle East Studies, Third World Quarterly, and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), among others; has served as consultant to various bodies, incl. the European Commission, the Dept. for International Development (DfID), and the World Bank; currently Professor of Middle East Studies in the Dept. of War Studies at King’s College London; continues to work on Middle East issues and on reform and negotiations in the PA; has authored numerous articles, studies, book chapters and books, incl. Confronting the 1990s: Security in the Developing Countries (London, 1990), Arab Military Industry: Capabilities, Performance and Impact (London/Beirut, 1992); Armed Struggle and the Search for State: The Palestinian National Movement, 1949-93 (Oxford, 1997), and The Military and the State in the Middle East (forthcoming); co-editor (with Avi Shlaim) of The Cold War and the Middle East (Oxford, 1997), and co-editor (with Louise Fawcett) of The Third World Beyond the Cold War (Oxford, 1999).
