2017 Workshop

Joel Beinin

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

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. (MESA). 

Beinin’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. He has written or edited eleven books, most recently , Workers and Thieves: Labor Movements and Popular Uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt (Stanford University Press, 2016)