Fayez Sayegh

Fayez Sayegh (; 1922–1980) was an Arab-American diplomat, scholar and teacher. He was a scholar who developed various analyses on the Palestinian opposition movement against Zionism.

Early life and education Sayegh was born in 1922 in Kharaba, Mandatory Syria, where his father was a Presbyterian minister. He was one of Abdullah Sayigh and Afifa Batruni's six sons, including Yusif Sayigh, Anis Sayigh and Tawfiq Sayigh. He also had a sister, Mary.

As a child, Sayegh moved with his family to Tiberias and went to school in Safed. 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. After receiving his Ph.D., Sayegh worked for the Lebanese Embassy in Washington DC. He also worked at the United Nations. The center published his historical study entitled Zionist Colonialism in Palestine in 1965. His brother, Anes, succeeded Fayez as the director-general of the Palestine Research Center in 1966.

Sayegh was instrumental in the establishment of Shu'un Filastiniyya which was started by the Palestine Research Center in 1971.

Views Sayegh was one of the early scholars who analyzed the negative effects of the sectarianism in Lebanon. For him these effects of sectarianism emerged as a result of the popular life and popular consciousness, not of the historical events. He argued that Palestinians would never accept "a fraction of rights in a fraction of their homeland." He defined the racial principles of Zionism as self-segregation, exclusiveness, and supremacy which are the elements of segregation.

Sayegh and other diplomats and jurists helped bring attention to the Palestinian cause within the framework of international law and human rights. Death Sayegh died in New York City in 1980 and was buried in Beirut.