[1] He chaired the Palestine Research Center and was one of the main driving forces behind the Palestinian Encyclopedia.
[1] Anis Sayigh was born in 1931 in Tiberias, Palestine to a Syrian Father and a Palestinian mother.
[4] Sayigh studied political science at the American University of Beirut and received his bachelor's degree in 1953.
After graduating, he wrote for Al-Hayat and Arab Week, and published his first book Lubnan at-Ta'ifi (Sectarian Lebanon).
In 1966, Sayigh met Ahmad Shukeiri, head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and promoted the idea of establishing a Palestinian encyclopedia, and was appointed as the head of the PLO's Palestine Research Center succeeding his brother Fayez Sayigh.