Career
He was also a leading economist at the state-owned Sana'a University. Dr. Saqqaf was killed in 1999 when he was hit by a car. Despite appeals by Dr. Saqqaf's heirs to re-open an investigation into the accident due to indicators that it may have been a carefully coordinated assassination, the authorities in 1999 refused to do so, resulting in a withdrawal from the trial proceedings against the car driver.
Dr. Saqqaf earned his doctoral degree in 1979 from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Medford, Massachusetts. Of his many publications was a two part series on Islamic Economic Systems which he introduced as a subject while he taught at Sana'a University College of Commerce.
