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Joel BeininTopics of Interest:
Social and Cultural History; Political Economy; Histories of Workers, Peasants, Minorities; the Left in the ME; Israel, Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict; History of Oil in the ME Countries/Regions of Interest: Egypt, Tunisia, Lebanon, Israel/Palestine |
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List of Publications Books: Workers and Revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt (forthcoming, Stanford University Press). Social Movements, Mobilization, and Contestation in the Middle East and North Africa, (Stanford University Press, 1st ed. 2011, 2nd ed. 2013); co-edited with Frédéric Vairel. First edition includes: “The Middle East and North Africa Beyond Classical Social Movement Theory,” and “Afterword” (with Frédéric Vairel) and “A Workers’ Social Movement on the Margin of the Global Neoliberal Order, Egypt 2004-2009.” Second edition includes: “The Middle East and North Africa Beyond Classical Social Movement Theory” (revised) and “A Workers’ Social Movement on the Margin of the Global Neoliberal Order, Egypt 2004-2012” (with Marie Duboc). The Struggle for Worker Rights in Egypt (Washington, DC: Solidarity Center, 2010); Arabic edition: (Cairo, 2010). First award for a non-periodical publication by a national or international entity from International Labor Communications Association, 2011. The Struggle for Sovereignty: Palestine and Israel, 1993-2005 (Stanford University Press, 2006); co-edited with Rebecca L. Stein. Workers and Peasants in the Modern Middle East (Cambridge University Press, 2001). The Dispersion of Egyptian Jewry: Culture, Politics, and the Formation of a Modern Diaspora (University of California Press, 1998); paperback edition: American University in Cairo Press, 2005; Hebrew translation: Pzurat yehudei mitzrayim (Tel Aviv: Resling, 2007); Arabic translation: Shatat yahud misr (Cairo: Dar al-Shorouk, 2007). Political Islam: Essays from Middle East Report (University of California Press, 1996); co-edited with Joe Stork. Includes “On the Modernity, Historical Specificity and International Context of Political Islam,” (with Joe Stork). Was the Red Flag Flying There? Marxist Politics and the Arab-Israeli Conflict in Egypt and Israel, 1948-1965 (University of California Press, 1990); Arabic translation: al-‘Alam al-ahmar: hal kana yurafrif hunak? al-siyasat al-markisiyya wa'l-niza‘ al-‘arabi al-isra’ili (Cairo: Dar al-Thaqafa al-Jadida, 1996). Intifada: The Palestinian Uprising Against Israeli Occupation (South End Press, 1989); co-edited with Zachary Lockman. Includes “From Land Day to Equality Day,” (earlier version in Middle East Report, no. 150 (January-February 1988). Workers on the Nile: Nationalism, Communism, Islam and the Egyptian Working Class, 1882‑1954 (Princeton University Press, 1987); co-authored with Zachary Lockman. 2nd edition: (American University in Cairo Press, 1998). Arabic translation: al-‘Ummal wa’l-haraka al-siyasiyya fi misr: al-wataniyya, al-shuyu‘iyya, al-islamiyya, 2 vols. (Cairo: Markaz al-Buhuth al-‘Arabiyya, 2 vols. 1992, 1996). Articles in Peer Reviewed Journals: “Le rôle des ouvriers dans les soulèvements populaires arabes de 2011,” Le Mouvement Social no. 246 (Jan.-Mar. 2014):7-27. “Mixing, Separation, and Violence in Urban Spaces and the Rural Frontier in Palestine,” Arab Studies Journal 21 (no. 1, Spring 2013):10-43. “Workers and Egypt’s January 25th Revolution,” International Labor and Working Class History 80 (no. 1, 2011):189-96. “Workers’ Protest in Egypt: Neo-Liberalism and Class Struggle in the 21st Century,” Social Movement Studies 8 (no. 4, Nov. 2009):449–454. “Le Marxisme égyptien (1936-52): nationalisme, anti-impérialisme et réforme sociale,” Cahiers d’histoire: revue d’histoire critique, no. 105/106 (July-Dec. 2008):129-43. “Essor et déclin du paradigme marxiste/nationaliste de gauche dans Le Moyen-Orient Arabe,” Cahiers d’histoire: revue d’histoire critique, no. 104 (avril-juin 2008):169-88. “Forgetfulness for Memory: The Limits of the New Israeli History,” Journal of Palestine Studies 35 (no. 2, winter 2005):6-23. “Political Islam and the New Global Economy: The Political Economy of an Egyptian Social Movement,” The New Centennial Review 5 (no. 1, spring 2005):111-39. “The Israelization of American Middle East Policy Discourse,” Social Text 21 (no. 2, summer 2003):125-39 “Is Terrorism a Useful Term in Understanding the Middle East and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict?” Radical History Review no. 85 (winter 2003):12-23. “Anti-Zionism, Anti-Semitism, and the Jewish Community in Egypt, 1939 to the Present,” Hagar: International Social Science Review 3 (no. 1, 2002):51-66. “The Jewish Business Elite in Twentieth Century Egypt: Pillars of the National Economy or Compradors?” Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies 1 (no. 2, Autumn 1999):113-38. “Political Economy and Public Culture in a State of Constant Conflict: 50 Years of Jewish Statehood,” Jewish Social Studies 4 (no. 3, 1998):96-141. “Nazis and Spies: Representations of Israeli Espionage and Terrorism in Egypt,” Jewish Social Studies 2 (no. 3, 1996):54-84. “Egyptian Jewish Identities: Communitarianisms, Nationalisms, Nostalgias,” Stanford Humanities Review 5 (no. 1, 1995):92-119; reprinted in Goshen: Bulletin des juifs d’Egypte en Israël no. 16 (January 2000):14-22. “The Holocaust and the Politics of Memory” (review essay) Radical History Review no. 60 (Fall 1994):217-23. “Writing Class: Workers and Modern Egyptian Colloquial Poetry (Zajal),” Poetics Today 15 (no. 2, Summer 1994):191-215. “Exile and Political Activism: The Egyptian-Jewish Communist Emigrés in Paris, 1950-1959” Diaspora 2 (no. 1, 1992):73-94. “Knowing Your Enemy, Knowing Your Ally: The Arabists of Hashomer Hatza‘ir (MAPAM),” Social Text no. 28 (July 1991):100-21; Hebrew translation in ‘Aravim ve-yehudim be-tekufat ha-mandat: mabat hadash ‘al ha-mehkar ha-histori, Ilan Pappé, ed., (Givat Haviva: Center for Peace Research, 1995):179-201 “Class, Ethnicity, Gender, National Conflict, and the Formation of Israeli Society” (review essay) Radical History Review, no. 51 (Fall 1991):114-23. “Labor, Capital and the State in Nasserist Egypt, 1952-1961,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 21 (no. 1, 1989):71-90. “Israel at Forty: The Political Economy/Political Culture of Constant Conflict,” Arab Studies Quarterly 10 (no. 3, 1988):433-56. “The Communist Movement and Nationalist Political Discourse in Nasirist Egypt,” Middle East Journal 41 (no. 4, 1987):568-84. “Class and Politics in Middle Eastern Societies: A Review Article,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 28 (no. 3, 1986):552-57. Book Chapters: “Liberal Arab Intellectuals and the Partition of Palestine,” (forthcoming in a book edited by Arie Dubnov). “Egyptian Workers in the Liberal Age and Beyond,” in Jens Hanssen and Max Weiss eds. Transformations of Modern Arabic Thought, (Princeton University Press, forthcoming). “Mouvement ouvrier, luttes syndicales et processus révolutionnaire en Égypte, 2006-2013,” in Michel Camau and Frédéric Vairel (eds.), Soulèvements et recompositions politiques dans le monde arabe (Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2014), 121-42. (with Marie Duboc) “Jews as Native Iraqis,” Introduction to Nissim Rejwan, To Live in Two Worlds: Baghdad–Jerusalem, 1924–2008 (University Press of America, 2013), xv-xix. Original longer version: Foreword to Nissim Rejwan, The Last Jews in Baghdad” (University of Texas Press, 2004), xi-xxii. “Strikes in Egypt Spread from Center of Gravity,” with Hossam el-Hamalawy, in David McMurray and Amanda Ufheil-Somers (eds.), The Arab Revolts: Dispatches on Militant Democracy in the Middle East (Indiana University Press, 2013), 83-99. “The Working Class and the Popular Movement in Egypt,” in Jeannie Sowers (ed.), The Journey to Tahrir: Revolution, Protest and Social Change in Egypt, 1999-2011 (Verso, 2012), 92-106. “Soziale Bewegungen und der »Arabische Frühling«: Rolle der ägyptischen Arbeiterbewegungi” in Asiye Öztürk (ed.), Arabische Zeitenwende. Aufstand und Revolution in der arabischen Welt (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, 2012), 76-85. “North American Colleges and Universities and BDS,” in Audrea Lim (ed.), The Case for Sanctions Against Israel (Verso, 2012), 61-75. “The Struggle for Worker Rights in Egypt,” in Immanuel Ness, Amy Offner, and Chris Sturr (eds.), Real World Labor (Boston: Dollars and Sense, 2011). “Knowing the Other: Arabs, Islam, and the Western Cultural Tradition,” in Hazel Rose Markus and Paula M. L. Moya (eds.), Doing Race: 21 Essays for the 21st Century (Norton Press, 2010), 199-215. “Egyptian Textile Workers: From Craft Artisans Facing European Competition to Proletarians Contending with the State,” in Lex Heerma van Voss, et al, (eds.), The Ashgate Companion to the History of Textile Workers, 1650-2000, (Ashgate Press, 2010), 172-97. “Egyptian Workers from Arab Socialism to the Neo-Liberal Economic Order,” in Rabab El-Mahdi and Philip Marfleet (eds.), Egypt: The Moment of Change, Zed Press, 2009), 68-86. “Neo-Liberal Structural Adjustment, Political Participation and Political de-Mobilization in Egypt,” in Laura Guazzone and Daniela Pioppi (eds.), The Arab State and Neo-Liberal Globalization: The Restructuring of State Power in the Middle East (Ithaca Press, 2009), 19-46. “The Egyptian Workers Movement in 2007,” in Hadjar Aouardji and Hélène Legeay (eds.), Chroniques égyptiennes/Egyptian Chronicles 2007 (Cairo: CEDEJ, 2008), 219-40. “The New McCarthyism: Policing Thought about the Middle East” in Academic Freedom after 9/11, Beshara Doumani, ed., (Zone Press, 2006), 237-66; earlier version in Race & Class 46 (no. 1, July-September 2004):101-15. “Imposed Normalization and Cultural Transgression: Cultural Politics in Egypt and Israel since the 1979 Peace Treaty,” in John Bunzl (ed.) In God's Name? Islam, Judaism and the Political Role of Religions in the Middle East (Florida Universities Press, 2004), 137-55. “The Karaites in Modern Egypt,” in Meira Polliack (ed.), Karaite Judaism: A Guide to its History and Literary Sources (Brill Press, 2003), 417-30. “The United States-Israeli Alliance,” in Tony Kushner and Alisa Solomon (eds.) Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Grove Atlantic Press, 2003), 41-50. “Late Capitalism and the Reformation of the Working Classes in the Middle East” in Histories of the Modern Middle East: New Directions, Israel Gershoni, Hakan Erdem, and Ursula Wökek eds., (Lynne Rienner Press, 2002). “Society and Economy, 1923-1952,” in The Cambridge History of Egypt, M.W. Daly ed., (Cambridge University Press, 1998) 2:309-33. “Arms Transfers, the New Structure of U.S. Hegemony, and Prospects for Democratic Development in the Gulf,” in War and its Consequences: Lessons from the Persian Gulf Conflict, John O'Loughlin, Thomas Meyer, and Edward S. Greenberg, eds. (HarperCollins, 1994):87-104; partial German translation in Inamo: Berichte & Analysen zu Politik und Gesellschaft des Nahen und Mittleren Ostens 2 (Winter 1996):8-11. “Will the Real Egyptian Working Class Please Stand Up?” in Workers and Working Classes in the Middle East: Struggles, Histories, Historiographies, Zachary Lockman, ed. (State University of New York Press, 1994), 247-70. “New History, New Politics: A Revisionist Historical View,” in The Struggle for Peace: Israelis and Palestinians, Elizabeth W. Fernea and Mary E. Hocking, eds. (University of Texas Press, 1992), 80-86. “Remapping the West: Teaching the Middle East in World and Western Civilization Courses,” in Perspectives on Teaching Innovations: World and Global History (American Historical Association, 1999):55-62 earlier version in AHA Perspectives, December 1992. “1919: Labor Upsurge and National Revolution,” chapter from Workers on the Nile, in The Modern Middle East: A Reader, Albert Hourani, Philip Khoury and Mary Wilson, eds. (I.B. Tauris, 1992; University of California Press, 1994):395-428. “Islam, Marxism, and the Shubra al‑Khaymah Textile Workers: Muslim Brothers and Communists in the Egyptian Trade Union Movement,” in Islam, Politics, and Social Movements, Edmund Burke, III and Ira M. Lapidus, eds. (University of California Press, 1988):207-27. “Israel: The Political Economy of a Garrison State and its Future,” in The Next Arab Decade: Alternative Futures, Hisham Sharabi, ed. (Westview & Mansell, 1988):241-54; Arabic translation: al‑Mustaqbal al‑`Arabi, no. 91 (Sept. 1986) and al-‘Aqd al‑‘arabi al‑qadim: al-mustaqbalat al‑badila (Georgetown University Center for Contemporary Arab Studies & Arab Unity Studies Center, 1986). “Islamic Responses to the Penetration of Capitalism in the Middle East,” in The Islamic Impulse, Barbara Stowasser, ed. (Georgetown University Center for Contemporary Arab Studies & Croom Helm, 1986), 87-105. Other Articles: “The Egyptian Workers Movement Before and After the 2011 Popular Uprising,” Socialist Register 2015; with Marie Duboc, (Merlin Press, Pontypool, Wales, 2014). “Die Arbeiter, der Volksaufstand und die ägyptische Politik nach Mubarak,” Inamo 78 (Summer 2014): 39-48 (with Marie Duboc) “Civil Society, NGOs and Egypt’s 2011 Popular Uprising,” South Atlantic Quarterly 113 (no. 2, Spring 2014):396-406. “Primer on Palestine, Israel and the Arab-Israeli Conflict” 3rd ed.), with Lisa Hajjar, Feb. 2014; earlier versions: “Palestine for Beginners,” Middle East Report, no. 154 (Sept.-Oct. 1988); with Lisa Hajjar, expanded version in Intifada; revised and updated as “Palestine, Israel, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Primer” (2004). “The Arab Uprisings Have Not Failed: They Are Continuing,” Mobilizing Ideas, Jan. 1, 2014. “From Urban Cosmopolitanism to ‘Mixed Cities’ to Ethnic Purity,” Jadal Electronic Magazine, no. 18, Mada al-Carmel Arab Center for Applied Social Research, Oct. 2013 (English and Arabic). “Egitto: facebook revolution o lotta di classe” Micromega no. 7 (2013):38-53. “Intellectuals, Socialists, Capitalists and Bi-Nationalism in Mandate Palestine,” AJS Perspectives, Fall 2013. “Les ouvriers égyptiens et le 25 janvier: contexte historique d’un mouvement social,” Cahiers de l’Orient no. 108 (Winter, 2012):97-114. “The Left, the Jews and Defenders of Israel: A Review Essay,” Middle East Report Online, August, 2012. “Egyptian Workers and January 25th: A Social Movement in Historical Context,” Social Research 79 (no. 2, Summer 2012):323-48. “The Rise of Egypt’s Workers,” Carnegie Papers, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,” June 2012 (Arabic version: “Su‘ud ‘ummal misr”). “The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and the Arab Awakening,” Palestine-Israel Journal 18 (no. 1, 2012):52-60. “A Decade of the Neo-McCarthyite Assault on Middle East Studies,” Journal of Religion, Conflict, and Peace 4 (no.1, Fall 2010). “The New Global Economy and the Political Economy of Islamic Social Movements,” Wujhat Nazr (Cairo), Dec. 2008, 20-25 (in Arabic). “A New Economic Era: Gauging the Winners and Losers,” Wujhat Nazr (Cairo), July 2008, 4-8 (in Arabic). “Egyptian Textile Workers in the Transition to a Neo-Liberal Order,” The Chronicles 1 (no. 3, Jan.-Mar. 2006):16-18. “Middle East Studies after September 11: Presidential Address to the Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association of North America,” MESA Bulletin 37 (no. 1, Summer 2003):2-18 “The Working Class and Peasantry in the Middle East: From Economic Nationalism to Neoliberalism,” Middle East Report no. 210 (Spring 1999):18-22. “Palestine and Israel: Perils of a Neoliberal, Repressive, Pax Americana,” Social Justice 25 (no. 4, 1998):20-39. “The Israeli Peace Movement” (review essay), Middle East Report no. 205 (Oct.-Dec. 1997):45-46. “I am Jewish because I am Egyptian. I am Egyptian because I am Jewish.” (interview with Jacques Hassoun), MERIP Newsletter (Winter 1997):2-3. “The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict after Oslo” (review essay), Middle East Report no. 201 (Oct.-Dec. 1996):45-47. “Law, Ideology, and Social Change in Israel: Response to Roselle Tekiner,” Contention 4 (no. 2, Winter 1995):175-81. “Becoming a Jew without Borders,” Stanford Humanities Review 3 (no. 1, 1993):137-42. “Jawanib min al-muqawama al-madaniyya al-misriyya: Markaz Ibn Khaldun” [Aspects of civil resistance in Egypt, translation of a review article from Middle East Report No. 179], al-Mujtama‘ al-madani no. 13 (January 1993):42-43. “Money, Media and Strategic Consensus: The Washington Institute for Near East Policy,” Middle East Report, no. 180 (January-February 1993):10-15; Arabic translation in Ru’a mughayyira no. 1 (Feb. 1997):30-38. “Yanayir 1977: al-tabaqa al-‘amila wa'l-yasar al-misri” [January 1977: The Working Class and the Egyptian Left], in Ishkaliyyat al-takwin al-ijtima‘i wa'l-fikriyyat al-sha‘biyya fi misr: buhuth wa-munaqashat al-nadwa al-muhdah ila Ahmad Sadiq Sa‘d, 3-5 mayu 1990 (Nicosia: Dar Ibal, 1992):305-16. “Airpower Redux,” The Stanford Historian, no. 15 (July 1991):12-15. “al‑Tabaqa al‑‘amila wa’l‑sira‘ al‑tabaqi fi misr, 1952-1961” [The Working Class and the Class Struggle in Egypt] Qadaya Fikriyya, no. 5 (May 1987). “Private Capital in Israel,” MERIP Middle East Report, no. 142 (Sept.‑Oct. 1986):35-38. “Formation of the Egyptian Working Class,” MERIP Reports, no. 94 (Feb.1981):14-23. “The Palestine Communist Party, 1919‑1948,” MERIP Reports, no. 55 (Mar. 1977):3-16. Encyclopedia Articles: “Palestine,” Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, 2nd ed. (Macmillan, forthcoming) “Communism,” The Encyclopedia of Islam Three, (Brill Online, 2014) 38-42. “The Karaites of Modern Egypt,” in Norman Stillman, ed. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World (Brill 2010) Vol. 3, 108-13. “Anti-Semitism: The Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia,” in Peter N. Stearns, eds., Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World: 1750 to the Present (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008). “Gamal Abdel Nasser” and “Nasserism” in Oxford Companion to Politics of the World (Oxford University Press, 1993):612-14. “Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Movement” and “Egyptian Revolts (1880-1919)” in The Encyclopedia of Political Revolutions (Congressional Quarterly Books, 1998):149-51. “Egypt,” Colliers Encyclopedia vol. 8 (1987):636-39, 641B-52. Journalism and Analysis of Current Events: “Stanford historian aims to dispel Western misconceptions about The Arab Spring,” interview with Alexis Charles, Stanford Humanities Center Blog, Oct. 23, 2014 “Can Arabs Be Human Rights Defenders?” Mada Masr and Jadaliyya, Oct. 10, 2014. “Can the US Congress bring justice for the Palestinians?: A response to Robert Naiman,” Mondoweiss, Sept. 29, 2014. “Understanding Violence,” The Diplomatist, August 2014, 16-17. “Racism is the Foundation of Israel’s Operation Protective Edge,” Stanford University Press Blog, July 30, 2014 “On Revolutions and Defeated Revolutionary Movements: A Reply to Brecht De Smet,” Jadaliyya, June 11, 2014. “Let’s Have Reasoned Debate, Not Distortion and Calumny: A Reply to Russell Berman,” with Hilton Obenzinger and David Palumbo-Liu, Los Angeles Review of Books, Apr. 27, 2014. “History and Consequences,” Jadaliyya, Mar. 19, 2014. “The People Still Demand ‘Bread, Freedom, and Social Justice,’” Stanford University Press Blog, Jan. 24, 2014. “What Comes Next: Unlikely, unrealistic, or unimaginable?” Mondoweiss, Oct. 14, 2013. Open Office Hours on current events in the Middle East, Stanford University, Sept. 9, 2013 “Egyptian Workers After June 30,” Middle East Report Online, Aug. 23, 2013. “Egypt: Back to Square One” interview with Alina Mogilyanskaya, Independent, Aug. 17, 2013 “Egypt’s New Interim Government is Not a Leftist Coalition,” interview with Giuseppe Acconcia, Open Democracy, July 29, 2013. “Was there a January 25 Revolution?” Jadaliyya.com, Jan. 25, 2013. “Workers, Trade Unions, and Egypt’s Political Future,” Middle East Report Online, Jan. 18, 2013 “All Unionized and Nowhere to Go,” Sada, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Jan. 8, 2013; Arabic version: “al-Niqabat al-‘ummaliyya al-misriyya ba‘d al-dustur al-jadid;” reprinted in The Daily Star (Beirut) and Daily News Egypt, Jan. 18, 2013 “The First Intifada and the Non-emergence of a Palestinian State, Mondoweiss, Dec. 13, 2012 “In Search of a New Political Language,” Egypt Independent, June 27, 2012. “A Revolution Is Not a Marketing Campaign,” Middle East Research and Information Project Blog, June 18, 2012 “Beinart’s Boycott,” Middle East Research and Information Project Blog, Mar. 19, 2012 “BDS in the News,” Middle East Research and Information Project Blog, Feb. 23, 2012 “Arms sales to Bahrain under the scanner,” Al Jazeera.net, Nov. 3, 2011. “Palestina, Israel y Egipto tras la ‘Primavera Árabe’” Afkar/Ideas 31, October 2011. “Arab Spring – Chief Consequence,” Global Brief, Oct. 19, 2011. “The Middle East’s Working-Class Revolutions?” The Nation, Sept. 12, 2011. “The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and the Arab Awakening,” Middle East Report Online, Aug. 1, 2011. “Jewish Voice for Peace and UN Recognition of Palestinian Statehood,” Jewish Voice for Peace, July 30, 2011. “What have workers gained from Egypt’s January 25 Revolution?” The Middle East Channel, ForeignPolicy.com, July 20, 2011; Hebrew version at Alternative Information Center “Revolution and Repression in Suez,” Jadaliyya, July 12, 2011. “Egypt: The Struggle Continues,” Jadaliyya, July 2, 2011. “The voice is Obama’s; the hands are Bush’s,” www.bitterlemons-international.org, June 9, 2011. “After the Revolution,” roundtable with Stanford Magazine, May 2011, 56-64. “Fatah-Hamas Reconciliation and Palestinian-Israeli Peace,” Jewish Voice for Peace, May 11, 2011. “Egypt’s Workers Rise Up,” The Nation, Mar. 7, 2011. “Historian Joel Beinin on the Egyptian Labor Crisis,” The Human Experience, February 2011. “Egypt at the tipping point?” The Middle East Channel, ForeignPolicy.com, Jan. 31, 2011; Hebrew version, “Mitzrayim be-nekudat ha-al chazor?” Hagada Hasmolit, Feb. 1, 2011. “Whose side is Obama on anyway?” with Mitchell Zimmerman, Salon.com, Jan. 30, 2011. “How did the U.S. get in bed with Mubarak?” interview with Justin Elliott, Salon.com, Jan. 29, 2011. “A Day in the Wilderness of Judea,” Jadaliyya, Dec. 26, 2010. “The Problem is the Israeli Occupation: al-Nabi Saleh,” Jadaliyya, Dec. 20, 2010. “Contesting Past and Present at Silwan,” Middle East Report Online, Sept. 17, 2010. “Egyptian Workers Demand a Living Wage,” The Middle East Channel, ForeignPolicy.com, May 12, 2010. “Confronting Settlement Expansion in East Jerusalem,” Middle East Report Online, Feb. 14, 2010 “Building a Different Middle East,” The Nation, Jan. 15, 2010 “Rachel Corrie in Palestine…and in San Francisco” Middle East Report Online, August 2009; Arabic version in Wujhat Nazr (Cairo), Nov. 2009. “If not now, when?” Retort, Jan. 18, 2009 “President Obama and the Future of Israel and Palestine” JVP News, Fall 2008 “Three Months in the Wilderness,” MR Zine, Oct. 22, 2008 “The Heart Wants to Hope, But the Brain Cannot,” MR Zine, Sept. 22, 2008. “Palestine and Israel: What's Iran Got to Do with It?” MR Zine, July 22, 2008. “A Tale of Two Cities: Istanbul and Sharm al-Sheikh,” JVP News, May 24, 2008. “L’Egypte des ventres vides,” Le Monde Diplomatique, May 2008; English version: “Undermining Mubarak” (also in Middle East Online and Aljazeera Magazine). “Preparing for War with Iran?” Jewish Voice for Peace E-Newsletter, May 2008. “Underbelly of Egypt’s Neoliberal Agenda,” Middle East Report Online, April 5, 2007. “Unpleasant Anniversaries, Jewish Peace News, Mar. 25, 2008. “It’s the Empire, Stupid,” Jewish Peace News, Feb. 20, 2008. “The People of the Gaza Strip Challenge Sham Peace Process,” Informed Comment, Jan. 24, 2008. “Letter from Tuwani,” Middle East Report no. 244 (Fall 2007) “The Militancy of Mahalla al-Kubra,” Middle East Report Online, Sept. 29, 2007 “Strikes in Egypt Spread from Center of Gravity,” with Hossam el-Hamalawy, Middle East Report Online, May 9, 2007. “Egyptian Textile Workers Confront the New Economic Order,” with Hossam el-Hamalawy, Middle East Report Online, Mar. 25, 2007 “Wasting Time in the Middle East,” TomPaine.com, Feb. 23, 2007 “Silencing Critics Not Way to Middle East Peace,” San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 4, 2007 “The 2006 Lebanon War and the Israeli Peace Forces,” Wilberforce Quarterly 1 (no. 2, Fall 2006) and al-Adab (July-Sept. 2006) (in Arabic) “Deflating Middle East Extremism,” TomPaine.com, Aug. 10, 2006 “Lives of Struggle and Commitment to Social Justice,” The Chronicles: Economic and Business History Research Center of The American University in Cairo 2 (no. 1, July-Sept. 2006:39-41. “When Doves Cry,” review of Scars of War, Wounds of Peace: The Israeli-Arab Tragedy by Shlomo Ben-Ami and The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967–1977 by Gershom Gorenberg, The Nation, Apr. 17, 2006. “The Conflict after Israel's Elections,” The San Diego Union-Tribune, Mar. 27, 2006 “Why Hamas Won, and Why Negotiations Must Continue,” San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 8, 2006 “Did Israel Lead the US into the War on Iraq?” December 2005, Jewish Voice for Peace, with Mitchell Plitnick and Cecilie Surasky “Popular Social Movements and the Future of Egyptian Politics,” Mar. 10, 2005, Middle East Report on Line "Imperial Lament," a review of: Niall Ferguson's Colossus: The Price of America's Empire, July 26, 2004 Middle East Report on Line "The US Congress Defies the World Court on Israel's Separation Barrier," July 20, 2004 www.juancole.com “Acts of Refusal: An Interview with Rela Mazali,” Middle East Report (no. 231, Summer 2004):22-25. “No More Tears: Benny Morris and the Road Back from Liberal Zionism,” Middle East Report no. 240 (Spring 2004):38-45 “The Greater Middle East and Prospects for Arab-American Dialogue and its Obstacles” (in Arabic) al-Adab 52 (no. 5-6, May-June 2004): 31-43. “The Good War,” a review essay of: The Yom Kippur War: The Epic Encounter that Transformed the Middle East by Abraham Rabinovich and The Eve of Destruction: The Untold Story of the Yom Kippur War by Howard Blum, The Nation, May 31, 2004. “Thought Control for Middle East Studies,” History News Network, Mar. 30, 2004 reprinted at Alternet.org, Common Dreams.org, Axisoflogic.com, and Asia Times (Singapore), Apr. 3, 2004 “Sharon’s Unilateral Steps,” Middle East Report Online, Dec. 31, 2003 “Iraq Today,” interview with Stanford Journal of International Relations 5 (no. 1, Fall 2003):57-58 “Wise Words on Deaf Ears,” Index on Censorship 32 (no. 3, July 2003):51-59 “Un ‘think tank’ au service du Likoud,” Le Monde Diplomatique, July 2003 (French, English, German, and Spanish editions) “Pro-Israel Hawks and the Second Gulf War,” Middle East Report Online, Apr. 6, 2003; reprinted in Kenneth Brown (ed.), L’Irak de la crise au chaos, (Paris: Ibis Press, 2004), 126-30 “Israeli Election Campaign Avoids the Issues,” Middle East Report Online, Jan. 14, 2003 “Neo-Conservatives in the U.S. Threaten Academic Freedom,” ISIM Newsletter (Jan. 2003) “Who’s Watching the Watchers?” History News Network, Sept. 30, 2002. “Letter from the President,” MESA Newsletter 24 (No. 2, May 2002). “Another Bloody Passover,” AlterNet, Mar. 27, 2002 “An Obligation to Question Prevailing Wisdom,” Los Angeles Times, Dec. 30, 2001 (syndicated). “The Reasons for Hate,” Stanford Daily, Oct. 2, 2001; Jordan Times, Oct. 23, 2001 “Late Capitalist Crisis, Middle East Oil, and Political Islam,” Between the Lines 1 (no. 6, April 2001): 25-32 “Camp David II,” Middle East Report Online, July 26, 2000; reprinted in Peacework, September 2000 “Israel’s Cabinet Crisis and the Political Economy of Peace,” Middle East Report Online, June 19, 2000 “The Oslo Process‑Back on Track?” Middle East Report Online, Oct.7, 1999; Arabic version in al-Safir (Beirut), Oct. 13, 1999 “Assessing Israel’s New Government,” Middle East Report Online, July 10, 1999 “Interpreting Israel's 1999 Election Campaign,”Middle East Report Online, Apr. 16, 1999 “The Demise of the Oslo Process,” Middle East Report Online, Mar. 11, 1999 “Don't Ignore World Opinion,” Stanford Daily, Mar. 11, 1998 "Albright's Approach Is Misguided," Stanford Daily, September 24, 1997 "What Happened to the 'Peace Process'?" Peaceworks (October 1996):1-3 "Liberated Ramallah," MERIP Newsletter (Spring 1996):3-4 "Israel, Post-Occupation," Mediterraneans no. 6 (Summer/Fall 1994):226-30 "Will There Be Peace After the Handshake?" Found Object no. 3 (Spring 1994):75-80 "Palestinian State Offers Best Chance for Lasting Peace," San Jose Mercury News, Sept. 19, 1993 “The Clinton Administration and the Palestinian-Israeli Peace Process,” (Palestinian Centre for Peace & Democracy: Published Lecture Series No. 1, Feb. 1993):1-18 “Peace, Peace, and There is No Peace,” City Lights Review no. 5 (1992):222-27 "U.S.-Israeli Conflict: Is it Real?" Palestine Focus no. 49/50 (Summer 1992):5-6 "The Arab States Face the Peace Conference," Peaceworks (November 1991):8-10 "Expertise and the Media in the Gulf War," Radical Historians Newsletter no. 63-64 (May 1991):1, 9 "Origins of the Gulf War," (unedited text of a lecture at the University of Wisconsin, Nov. 30, 1990) Open Magazine Pamphlet Series, no. 3 (February 1991) "For What Reason is the United States in the Persian Gulf?" Stanford Daily, October 8, 1990 "Who Controls Oil Prices: “Reason for War?" 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Joel Beinin is the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and Professor of Middle East History at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1982 before coming to Stanford in 1983. From 2006 to 2008 he served as Director of Middle East Studies and Professor of History at the American University in Cairo. In 2002 he served as president of the Middle East Studies Association of North America. Beinin’s research and writing focus on the social and cultural history and political economy of modern Egypt, Palestine, and the Arab-Israeli conflict. He has written or edited ten books, most recently Social Movements, Mobilization, and Contestation in the Middle East and North Africa, 2nd edition (Stanford University Press, 2013), co-edited with Frédéric Vairel and The Struggle for Worker Rights in Egypt (Solidarity Center, 2010). “Workers and Revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt” (tentative title) is forthcoming from Stanford University Press. His articles have been published in leading scholarly journals as well as The Nation, Le Monde Diplomatique, Middle East Report, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Jose Mercury News, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. He has been interviewed on Al-Jazeera TV, BBC radio, (US) National Public Radio, and many other TV and radio programs throughout the world as well by the global print media. |
