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Yezid Sayigh

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Senior Fellow @carnegiemec.bsky.social. Posting about #ArabMilitary political/economic roles, #CivilMilitary relations, #Middle East conflict. Views my own.

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Yezid Sayigh is a Palestinian academic. He is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut, Lebanon. Previously, he was a professor of Middle East Studies at the Department of War Studies at King's College London, a member of the Academic Board of the Gulf Research Center, and a member of the board of trustees of the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PCPSR). 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. Sayigh was a negotiator of the 1994 Gaza–Jericho Agreement between the Palestine Liberation Organisation 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 St Antony's College, Oxford (1990-1994). From 2005 to 2006, Sayigh was a visiting professor at the faculty of Political Studies and Public Administration at the American University of Beirut. .. more

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I’m taking part in this run in New York City to raise money for UNRWA, the dedicated UN agency for Palestinian refugees.

Here’s my sponsorship link. Please donate!

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2025 NYC Gaza 5K

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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 6h

Having led four medical missions to Gaza, @zsahloul.bsky.social describes the war’s devastating impact on the territory’s inhabitants and hospitals, and recounts a revealing conversation with President Biden, for @newlinesmag.bsky.social

I Believed I Had Seen the Worst Humanity Could Inflict — Until Gaza

A doctor who has led four medical missions to the territory describes the war’s devastating impact on its inhabitants and hospitals — and his fellow medical professionals

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