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Professor Amin Saikal (born 2 December 1950) is Director of the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies (The Middle East 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). He is a member of many national and international academic organisations.

Saikal was born in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Writings

• Saikal, Amin. The Rise and Fall of the Shah 1941 - 1979. Angus and Robertson (Princeton University Press). ISBN 0-207-14412-5.  

• Saikal, Amin. Modern Afghanistan. A History of Struggle and Survival I. B. Tauris and Co. Ltd. ISBN 1-85043-437-9

External links

• http://arts.anu.edu.au/cais/staffas.asp
• East Asia Forum