Joel Beinin

Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and Professor of Middle East History, Emeritus, Stanford University

Writing and teaching on Israel/Palestine, Egypt & the Arab World.

Writing and teaching on Israel/Palestine, Egypt & the Arab World.

Israel/Palestine Update


Periodic news and commentary from Joel about current events in Israel/Palestine.

Writing on the Contemporary Middle East

  • Arab Workers and the Struggle for Democracy

  • Primer on Palestine, Israel and the Arab-Israeli Conflict. 3rd ed.,

  • Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser Was a Towering Figure Who Left an Ambiguous Legacy

Scholarly Work

  • A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa

  • Alex Tepito

    The independent left in Israel, 1967-1993: Essays in memory of Noam Kaminer

  • Workers and Thieves

    Workers and Thieves: Labor Movements and Popular Uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt

Read more about Joel.

Joel’s research and writing focus on the social and cultural history and political economy of modern Egypt, Palestine, and Israel and on US policy in the Middle East.

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