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Amin Saikal

Professor Amin Saikal is Director of the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies (The Middle East and Central Asia) and Professor of Political Science at the Australian National University. Professor Saikal has specialised in the politics, history, political economy and international relations of the Middle East and Central Asia. He has been a Visiting Fellow at Princeton University, Cambridge University and the Institute of Development Studies (University of Sussex), as well as a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow in International Relations (1983-1988) and is a member of many national and international academic organizations.

Edward Said will be remembered as a highly accomplished man of literature, arts, and cultural and political discourse, as exemplified in his two widely influential books, Orientalism, and Culture and Imperialism, and his fine and sensitively moving autobiography, Out of Place. However, for me personally what absorbed me most was his participation in the struggle for the right of the Palestinians for free self-determination, without prejudice to the desire of Jewish people to live within a peaceful and secure Israel.

Amin Saikal

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