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| People Amin Saikal Director Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies Australian National University Amin Saikal is Director of the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies (The Middle East Central Asia) and Professor of Political Science. Professor Saikal has specialized 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). He is a member of many national and international academic organizations. He is the author of numerous works on the Middle East, Central Asia, and Russia, including monographs, articles in international journals, and feature articles in national and international newspapers. Further contributing to the public debate on issues relating to the Middle East and Central Asia he is a frequent commentator on these issues on radio and television. Saikal was awarded the Order of Australia as Member of the Order (AM) in January 2006. Professor Saikal has a long association with ANU and brings to the Centre a rich source of knowledge and experience in the University's operations. He serves on a number of University committees. He currently teaches three of the undergraduate courses and two of the graduate courses offered by the Centre each year, in addition to supervising or co-supervising students and being adviser to a number of other students outside the Centre. |
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