Joel Beinin

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Dr. Joel Beinin is a professor of Middle East History at Stanford University, where he has taught since 1983. He currently serves as Director of the Middle East Studies Department at the American University in Cairo.

1 Education and research
2 David Horowitz lawsuit
3 Bibliography, books (partial):
4 Bibliography, articles (partial):
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Education and research

Beinin received his A.B. from Princeton University in 1970, his M.A. from Harvard University in 1974, and his A.M.L.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1978 and 1982, respectively. He also studied at the American University of Cairo and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

He has been a contributing editor to MERIP [2] and have published articles in, among others, The Nation and Le Monde diplomatique. In 2002 he served as President of the Middle East Studies Association of North America.^[1]

Beinin's research and writing focuses on workers, peasants, and minorities in the modern Middle East; he also writes about issues regarding Israel, Palestine, and the Arab-Israeli conflict. He has lived for a number of years in Israel and Egypt.

Beinin has engaged in ongoing public disputes with Daniel Pipes, and was the subject of critical commentaries for years in the Stanford Review, the conservative Stanford student publication. The criticism concerned both the factual content of his lectures and his easy mixture of scholarship and political activism. He left Stanford on an extended leave, complaining that Stanford was not a conducive environment to study Islam.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] David Horowitz lawsuit

Beinin filed a lawsuit against writer and activist David Horowitz for copyright infringement regarding the use of a photo of Beinin on the cover of Horowitz's booklet "Campus Support for Terrorism". The photo in question was acquired for the purposes of the lawsuit from photographer Ted Mock, a year after it had appeared on the booklet.^[2] Horowitz has stated that U.S. copyright law allows the use of photographs of prominent people for the purpose of comment and criticism. [3]

[edit] Bibliography, books (partial):

Beinin, Joel; Lockman, Zachary: Workers on the Nile: Nationalism, Communism, Islam, and the Egyptian Working Class, 1882-1954, Princeton Univ Pr, U.S.A., 1989, ISBN 0691008450
Lockman Zachary and Beinin Joel (ed): Intifada The Palestinian Uprising, South End Press, U.S.A., 1989 ISBN 0896083632
Beinin, Joel: Was the Red Flag Flying There?: Marxist Politics and the Arab-Israeli Conflict in Egypt and Israel, 1948-1965, Univ of California 1990 ISBN 0520070364
Beinin, Joel: Origins of the Gulf War. Westfield: Open Magazine, 1991
Joel Beinin, Joe Stork (ed.): Political Islam : Essays from Middle East Report (Merip Reader), University of California Press, 1996, ISBN 0520204484
Beinin, Joel: Workers and Peasants in the Modern Middle East, (The Contemporary Middle East) Cambridge University Press, 2001, ISBN 0521621216
Rejwan, Nissim/ Beinin, Joel (FRW): The Last Jews in Baghdad: Remembering a Lost Homeland, University of Texas Press, 2004, ISBN 0292702930
Beinin, Joel: The Dispersion Of Egyptian Jewry Culture, Politics, And The Formation Of A Modern Diaspora Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998. Amer Univ in Cairo Pr, 2005, ISBN 9774248902
Beinin, Joel and Rebecca L Stein: The Struggle for Sovereignty: Palestine And Israel, 1993-2005, (Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures) Stanford Univ Pr, 2006, ISBN 0804753644