Online Video: Joel Beinin on the Middle East

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Report and Update from the Middle East
September 2, 2008

Joel Beinin
Professor, Middle East History, Stanford University

A conversation with
JOEL BEININ - Professor of Middle East History, Stanford University

Joel Beinin, one of the country's leading experts on the Middle East and a frequent guest on "Other Voices", has spent the past two years in Egypt, where he served as Director of the Middle East Studies Program at the American University in Cairo.

In this program, we talk with Joel about his experiences living and teaching in Egypt, including the current wave of labor strikes taking place there -- the biggest social movement in Egypt in over half a century. We also get an update on his particular area of expertise: the Israel-Palestine conflict. Joel -- and the audience -- explore the current status of the "peace process", Israel’s increasing tensions with Iran and Syria, and the internal political turmoil in both Israel and Palestine.

Joel Beinin has served as President of the Middle East Studies Association of North America and as a contributing editor to Middle East Report. Among the many books which he has written or co-authored are Intifada: The Palestinian Uprising (1989), Origins of the Gulf War (1991), Workers and Peasants in the Modern Middle East (2001), and The Struggle for Sovereignty: Palestine And Israel (2006).