Tawfiq Sayigh (Arabic: توفيق عبد الله صايغ; 1923–1971) was a Palestinian academic, writer and journalist.
[5] Sayigh studied at the Arab College in Jerusalem and had a degree in English literature from the American University of Beirut (AUB) in 1945.
[7] Sayigh was awarded a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship in 1951 and studied comparative literature at Harvard University, having a degree in 1953.
[6] Following his graduation from the AUB Sayigh returned to Palestine where he was employed as a teacher at Rawdat Al Ma’aref College in Jerusalem for one year between 1945 and 1946.
[1] During the same period he edited a women's magazine entitled Sawt Al Mar’a (Arabic: Woman’s Voice).
[2] The magazine folded in June 1967 after its financial support by the Congress for Cultural Freedom was made public by The New York Times on 25 April 1966.
[5] His poems were influenced from William Butler Yeats and Friedrich Nietzsche and have been described as one of the most significant experimental work which included cross cultural richness.
[10] Sayigh's first book was a hand-written monograph entitled The Bible as Literature which contained his essays in the period 1944–1945.