This person is no longer with the Carnegie Endowment.
Yezid Sayigh was a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center and is professor of Middle East Studies at King’s College in London.
From 1994 to 2003, he was the assistant director of studies at the Centre of International Studies at Cambridge University. Sayigh also headed the Middle East Research Programme of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London from 1998 to 2003.
From 1990 to 1994, Sayigh was an adviser and negotiator in the Palestinian Delegation to the peace talks with Israel. Since 1999, he has provided policy and technical consultancy on the permanent status peace talks and Palestinian reform. He is currently working on a new political sociology of the military’s political, economic, and social roles and its relationship to the state in the Middle East.
He has written numerous articles for academic and policy journals, most recently: “Inducing a Failed State in Palestine,” Survival, Vol. 49, No. 3, autumn 2007; “Approaches to Security Sector Reform in the Arab Region,” Arab Reform Initiative.
Selected Publications:
A Sisyphean Task: Putting the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process Back on Track, The International Spectator (Rome: Istituto Affari Internazionali, 2004); The Third World Beyond the Cold War: Continuity and Change (ed) (Oxford, 1999); Armed Struggle and the Search for a State: The Palestinian National Movement, 1949–1993 (1997).
