Amyn Sajoo

Amyn Sajoo is a scholar-in-residence in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at SFU. His work is at the interface of human rights, citizenship and identity.

Dr. Sajoo was earlier affiliated with Cambridge and McGill universities, the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore and the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London.

Since 2018, he has hosted a public conversations series, sponsored by SFU with civic partners. His onstage guests have included former Supreme Court of Canada Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin, John Ralston Saul, Indigenous scholar Wenona Hall, Canada’s special representative on Islamophobia Amira Elghawaby, and writers David Chariandy, Kamal al-Solaylee, Anosh Irani, Janika Oza and Saeed Teebi.

Dr. Sajoo has contributed extensively to the newsmedia, including the Guardian, BBC, Open Democracy and the Globe & Mail. His books include Pluralism in Old Societies and New States and Muslim Modernities: Expressions of the Civil Imagination (edited volume, 2008). He is currently working on a collection of essays on diaspora identities and citizenship.