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The opening as it read in 2015

Rosemary Sayigh (born 1935 in Birmingham, United Kingdom ) is a British-born journalist and scholar of Middle Eastern history. Sayigh is known for her works on the Palestinian people , particularly refugees from the Nakba who fled to Lebanon .¹ Her son is fellow scholar Yezid Sayigh , after marrying Yusef Sayigh in 1953. She earned her MA from the American University of Beirut in 1970 and her PhD from University of Hull in 1994. Sayigh was a journalist with the Economist until 1970, when she left due to disgust with "the Economist's uncritical, pro-American position on the Vietnam War ". During the 2006 Lebanon War , Sayigh and her family were evacuated from their home in Beirut to Cyprus.²

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The opening as it stood in 2020

Rosemary Sayigh (born 1935 in Birmingham, United Kingdom ) is a British-born journalist and scholar of Middle Eastern history. Sayigh is known for her works on the Palestinian people , particularly refugees from the Nakba who fled to Lebanon . Her son is fellow scholar Yezid Sayigh , after marrying Yusef Sayigh in 1953. She earned her MA from the American University of Beirut in 1970 and her PhD from University of Hull in 1994. Sayigh was a journalist with the Economist until 1970, when she left due to disgust with "the Economist's uncritical, pro-American position on the Vietnam War ". During the 2006 Lebanon War , Sayigh and her family were evacuated from their home in Beirut to Cyprus.

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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023

British-Palestinian journalist and writer (born 1935) Rosemary Sayigh (born 1935) is a British-born journalist and scholar of Middle Eastern history. Sayigh is known for her works on the Palestinian people , particularly refugees from the Nakba who fled to Lebanon . Her son is fellow scholar Yezid Sayigh , after marrying Yusef Sayigh in 1953. She earned her MA from the American University of Beirut in 1970 and her PhD from University of Hull in 1994. Sayigh was a journalist with the Economist until 1970, when she left due to disgust with "the Economist's uncritical, pro-American position on the Vietnam War ". During the 2006 Lebanon War , Sayigh and her family were evacuated from their home in Beirut to Cyprus.

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The opening as it stood in 2025 4 passages from the previous snapshot no longer appear

British-Palestinian journalist and writer (born 1927) Rosemary Sayigh ( née : Boxer; born 1927) is a British-born journalist and scholar of Middle Eastern history. She is known for her works on the Palestinian people , particularly those forcibly displaced to Lebanon as a result of the Nakba .

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