Amyn Sajoo

Amyn Sajoo is scholar-in-residence and lecturer at Simon Fraser University's Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. His research and teaching is at the interface of citizenship, human rights 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 guests have included former Supreme Court of Canada chief justice Beverley McLachlin, John Ralston Saul, Indigenous scholar Wenona Hall, and and the 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.