Sayyar Jamil

Sayyar al Jamil is a Research Professor at the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies in Doha, Qatar. Jamil was born in Iraq in 1952, and lived in Mosul before receiving his PhD at the University of St Andrews in Scotland.

Writings on generational throughout Arab history Jamil's website states a number of works which he has published in Arabic, but he is mostly widely known for his work on his contribution of a new theory (known in Arabic as or "successive generational shifts") of historical development, in which successive generations shape the course of events over roughly periodic cycles of 30 years or (the estimated duration of a single generation).