About Amin Saikal
Amin Saikal (born in Kabul, Afghanistan), is emeritus Professor of Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies, and Founding Director of the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies (The Middle East & Central Asia), at the Australian National University. He is also adjunct professor of Social Sciences at the University of Western Australia. 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 professor at Princeton University, Indiana University, Singapore's S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (Nanyang Technological University), Zayed University, and visiting fellow at Cambridge University and the Institute of Development Studies (University of Sussex), as well as a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow in International Relations (1983–1988). He is a member of many national and international academic organisations. Professor Amin Saikal is a frequent commentator on radio and television, and has published numerous articles in international journals, as well as many feature articles in major international newspapers, including the International Herald Tribune, The New York Times and The Guardian. He is also a regular op-ed contributor to The Strategist and Project Syndicate.
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