Amin Saikal is an emeritus professor of Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies at the Australian National University and an adjunct professor at the University of Western Australia and S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies. He is a Non-Resident Fellow at Princeton's Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination and an awardee of the Order of Australia (AM) and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia (FASSA). Saikal has authored several books, including How to Lose a War: The Story of America’s Intervention in Afghanistan (Yale UP, 2024) and Iran Rising (Princeton University Press, 2021). He is also an op-ed writer with contributions to major publications like The New York Times and The Guardian, and frequently appears as a commentator on national and international media.
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