Dr. Sayyar Al-Jamil is a research and historian. He worked as a research professor with the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies until January 2015, and was the senior researcher on two projects: “The Emergence of Modern Qatar” and “The Encyclopedia of the Arabian Gulf”. Al-Jamil has more than 30 years of teaching and research experience at universities in the Arab world, North America, and Europe. His courses have included World History and Globology, Philosophy of History, History of Islam, Ottoman History, Methodology, Modern History of Turkey and Iran, and Contemporary History of the Arab World. He has also served as a consultant to research centers and foundations, including UNESCO, ALECSO, and ISESCO. Al-Jamil is widely published in Arabic and English, spanning his interests as researcher and educator. Notably, he authored The Emergence of Modern Arabs, a project of 4 volumes discovering the remains and roots of modern Arab history. He also developed a theory of periodization in The Structure of Generations dealing with the macro and micro of historical periods covering the last 2,000 years. He is the recipient of the Schuman Award for Scientists (1991 and 1992), and has received the Necklace of Creative Distinguished Scientists from the Austrian National Library in Vienna (1995) and an award from International Courier (2004-2005). In 2007, he was elected as a senior counselor of the Iraqi Cultural Council in Jordan and, in 2009, served as an Ambassador of World Peace for the Universal Peace Federation of the UN, in Toronto, Canada.