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Line 5: \| alt = \| caption = \| birth_name = Fayez Abdullah ~~Sayigh~~Sayegh \| birth_date = 1922 \| birth_place = [[Kharaba]], [[Mandatory Syria]] Line 28: }} }} '''Fayez ~~Sayigh~~Sayegh''' (1922–1980) was an [[Arab-American]] diplomat, scholar and teacher. He was one of the most significant scholars who developed various analyses on the Palestinian resistance movement against [[Zionism]].<ref name=ninaf>{{cite journal\|author=Nina Fischer\|year=2020 \|title=Palestinian Non-Violent Resistance and the Apartheid Analogy\|journal=Interventions\|volume=23\|issue=8\|doi=10.1080/1369801x.2020.1816853\| page=1129\|s2cid=234662442\|url=https://zenodo.org/record/4065513 }}</ref> ==Early life and education== ~~Sayigh~~Sayegh was born in 1922 in [[Kharaba]], [[Mandatory Syria]], where his father was a [[Presbyterian]] minister.<ref name=matar>{{cite book\|page=440\|year=2005\|title=Encyclopedia of the Palestinians\|isbn=9780816069866\|chapter=Sayigh (family)\|author=Michael R. Fischbach \|editor=Philip Mattar\|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GkbzYoZtaJMC&pg=PA440\|location=New York\|publisher=Facts on File Inc.}}</ref> He was one of Abdullah Sayigh and Afifa Batruni's six sons, including [[Yusif Sayigh]], [[Anis Sayigh]] and [[Tawfiq Sayigh]].<ref name=hani>{{cite journal\|author=Hani A. Faris\|title=Book review\|journal=[[The Middle East Journal]]\|volume=70\|issue=1\|year=2016\|pages=162–164 \|jstor=43698630}}</ref> He also had a sister, Mary.<ref name=hani/> His father was of Syrian origin, and his mother was a native of [[al-Bassa]].<ref>{{cite journal\|title=Prisoner of War: Yusif Sayigh, 1948 to 1949. Excerpts from his recollections\|url=https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/77903\|issue=29\|journal=Jerusalem Quarterly\|date=Winter 2007}}</ref> As a child, ~~Sayigh~~Sayegh moved with his family to [[Tiberias]] and went to school in [[Safed]].<ref>{{cite news\|title=فايز صايغ انتصار الحرية على الأيديولوجيا\|url=https://palestine.assafir.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=2183\|work=Palestine Assafir\|archive-date=15 November 2017\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171115083105/https://palestine.assafir.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=2183\|language=ar}}</ref> He received his bachelor's degree from the [[American University of Beirut]] (AUB) in 1941 and his master's degree from the same university in 1945.<ref name=matar/> In 1949, he earned his Ph.D. in philosophy, with a minor in political science, from [[Georgetown University]].<ref name="Andrew">[[Andrew I. Killgore]], "[http://www.washingtonreport.me/2005-december/in-memoriam-25-years-after-his-death-dr.-fayez-sayeghs-towering-legacy-lives-on.html 25 Years After His Death, Dr. Fayez Sayegh’s Towering Legacy Lives On]", ''[[Washington Report on Middle East Affairs]]'', December 2005, pp 22–23.</ref><ref name=marc/> ==Career== ~~Sayigh~~Sayegh, along with his brothers who had joined earlier, joined the [[Syrian Social Nationalist Party]] in 1943.<ref name="matar" /> He was later expelled from the party after [[Antoun Saadeh]] returned to [[Lebanon]] in 1947, following his exile.<ref>{{Cite book\|title=Fayez Sayegh, The Party Years 1938-1947\|last=Beshara\|first=Adel\|publisher=Black House Publishing\|year=2019\|isbn=978-1912759224\|pages=39–91}}</ref> After receiving his Ph.D., Sayegh worked for the Lebanese Embassy in [[Washington, D.C.\|Washington DC]]. He also worked at the [[United Nations]].<ref name=matar/> He taught at a number of universities, including [[Yale]], [[Stanford]], [[Macalaster College]], as well as at his alma mater AUB and at the [[University of Oxford]].<ref name=matar/> ~~Sayigh~~Sayegh established the [[Palestine Research Center]] in Beirut in 1965 and served as its director-general for one year.<ref name="Andrew" /><ref name=marc>{{cite journal\|last=Gribetz\|first=Jonathan Marc\|title=When the zionist idea came to Beirut: Judaism, christianity, and the palestine liberation organization's translation of zionism\|doi=10.1017/s0020743816000015\|journal=[[International Journal of Middle East Studies]] \|volume=48\|issue=2\|year=2016\|page=246\|s2cid=163254448}}</ref> The center published his historical study entitled ''Zionist Colonialism in Palestine'' in 1965.<ref>{{cite journal\|last=Sayegh\|author=Fayez ~~Sayigh~~\|title=Zionist Colonialism in Palestine (1965)\|journal=Settler Colonial Studies \|volume=2\|issue=1\|year=2012\|doi=10.1080/2201473x.2012.10648833\|pages=206–225\|s2cid=161123773}}</ref> His brother, Anes, succeeded Fayez as the director-general of the Palestine Research Center in 1966.<ref name=marc/><ref name=katqu>{{cite thesis\|author=Katlyn Quenzer\|title=Writing the Resistance: A Palestinian Intellectual History, 1967-1974\|url=http://hdl.handle.net/1885/155195\|location=[[Australian National University]] \|degree=PhD\|hdl=1885/155195\|doi=10.25911/5d5149b41c470\|year=2019\|pages=59,96}}</ref> ~~Sayigh~~Sayegh was instrumental in the establishment of ''[[Shu'un Filastiniyya]]'' which was started by the Palestine Research Center in 1971.<ref name=ninaf/> He was the major contributor of the United Nations General Assembly's [[United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379\|Resolution 3379]] adopted in 1975.<ref name=ninaf/> The resolution supported the view that Zionism is a form of [[racism]].<ref name=ninaf/> After this event he acted as the most visible spokesperson of the Palestinian cause.<ref name=ninaf/> ~~Sayigh~~Sayegh made several appearances on American television as a commentator on the [[Israeli–Palestinian conflict]].<ref>{{Citation \|title=Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.: Where Do We Go from Here in the Middle East?\|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04YQ8vMygrQ \|access-date=2023-07-12}}</ref> ==Views== ~~Sayigh~~Sayegh was one of the early scholars who analyzed the negative effects of the [[sectarianism in Lebanon]].<ref name=weiss>{{cite journal\|last=Weiss \|first=Max\|title=The Historiography of Sectarianism in Lebanon\|journal=History Compass\|volume=7\|issue=1\|year=2009\|page=146\|doi=10.1111/j.1478-0542.2008.00570.x}}</ref> For him these effects of [[sectarianism]] emerged as a result of the popular life and popular consciousness, not of the historical events.<ref name="weiss"/> He argued that not only a political change but also a social change should occur for the unified Arab societies.<ref name=katqu/> ~~Sayigh~~Sayegh was the first scholar who developed the concept of the [[Zionism as settler colonialism\|Zionist settler colonialism]].<ref>{{cite journal \|author=Walid Salem\|title=Jerusalem: Reconsidering the Settler Colonial Analysis\|journal=Palestine - Israel Journal of Politics, Economics, and Culture\|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1865399405\|year=2016\|volume=21\|issue=4\|id={{ProQuest\|1865399405}}}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal \|author1=Sune Haugbolle\|issue=1\|author2=Pelle Valentin Olsen\|title=Emergence of Palestine as a Global Cause\|journal=[[Middle East Critique]] Line 64: Sayegh and other diplomats and jurists helped bring attention to the [[Palestinian cause]] within the framework of [[international law]] and [[human rights]].<ref name=":0" /> ==Death== ~~Sayigh~~Sayegh died in New York City in 1980 and was buried in Beirut.<ref name=matar/> ==Bibliography== Line 85: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04YQ8vMygrQ "Where Do We Go from Here in the Middle East?"], 60-minute video interview on [[Firing Line (TV series)\|''Firing Line'']] with [[William F. Buckley Jr.]] (1974) Fayez Sayigh, [http://www.ameu.org/Resources-(1)/Zionism-A-Form-of-Racism-2.aspx Zionism: “A Form of Racism And Racial Discrimination” Four Statements Made at the U.N. General Assembly] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150723000735/http://www.ameu.org/Resources-(1)/Zionism-A-Form-of-Racism-2.aspx \|date=23 July 2015 }}, 1976. Reprinted by [[Americans for Middle East Understanding]] [[As'ad AbuKhalil]], "[https://web.archive.org/web/20150723113407/http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/22818 Before Edward Said: a tribute to Fayez ~~Sayigh~~Sayegh]", ''[[Al Akhbar (Lebanon)\|Al Akhbar]]'', 9 December 2014 [https://collections.lib.utah.edu/search?q=uum_fasc/ Fayez ~~Sayigh~~Sayegh] at [https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ University of Utah Digital Library], [https://lib.utah.edu/collections/special-collections/ Marriott Library Special Collections] {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:~~Sayigh~~Sayegh, Fayez}} [[Category:1922 births]] [[Category:1980 deaths]]

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