Joel Beinin
Biographic Data
| ID | 179817 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joel Beinin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joel |
| FAMILY NAME | Beinin |
| SIGNATURE | BEININ J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 91 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 137 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 87 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Egyptian Popular Culture in Late Ottoman and Mandate Palestine
During the late Ottoman and British Mandate periods, Palestine was an integral component of the audience for the new forms of “colloquial mass culture” that emerged in Cairo. Early Egyptian recording artists, theatre troupes, and the giants of interwar Egyptian popular music—Umm Kulthum and Muhammad Abdel Wahhab—regularly appeared and were warmly received in Palestine. Egyptian performers did not come to Palestine to affirm or reinforce its Arabi…
Lumbering State, Restless Society: Egypt in the Modern Era By Nathan J. Brown, Shimaa Hatab, and Amr Adly Egypt: A Fragile Power By Eberhard Kienle
Since the mid-twentieth century, scholarship in English has devoted more attention to Egypt than any other country in the Middle East and North Africa, possibly excepting Israel/Palestine. This is partly due to the widespread perception that Egypt is the (or at least, a) leading cultural and political force in the Arab world and even beyond. That was the case in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and perhaps even up to the revolutionary upri…
A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa
This book offers the first critical engagement with the political economy of the Middle East and North Africa. Challenging conventional wisdom on the origins and contemporary dynamics of capitalism in the region, these cutting-edge essays demonstrate how critical political economy can illuminate both historical and contemporary dynamics of the region and contribute to wider political economy debates from the vantage point of the Middle East. Lead…
Merip and Political Economy in Middle East Studies
The Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) was founded in 1971 as a project of the American New Left in solidarity with and drawing inspiration from the Beirut-centered Arab New Left and anti-imperialist struggles for national liberation in the Middle East and North Africa. The question of Palestine was a central, but certainly not exclusive, concern. From its origins MERIP was committed to political economy as a key method to under…
Chapter 8. Arab liberal intellectuals and the partition of Palestine
Social Movements, Mobilization, and Contestation in the Middle East and North Africa: Second Edition
This book offers a nuanced understanding of the contexts, culturally conditioned rationality, local networks, and innovation in contentious action across the Middle East and North Africa to give the reader a substantive understanding of events in the Arab world before and since 2011
Workers and Thieves: Labor Movements and Popular Uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt
"Since the 1990s, the Middle East has experienced an upsurge of wildcat strikes, sit-ins, and workers' demonstrations. Well before people gathered in Tahrir Square to demand the ouster of Hosni Mubarak, workers had formed one of the largest oppositional movements to authoritarian rule in Egypt. In Tunisia, years prior to the 2011 Arab uprisings, the unemployed chanted in protest, "A job is a right, you pack of thieves!" Despite this history, most…
Sentimentalizing and Hyper-Theorizing Egypt's 2011 Uprising
The Arab popular uprisings of 2011 caught nearly every scholar, journalist, and foreign policy think tanker by surprise. The literature about them is already prodigious. Despite their failure to democratize the region (with the partial exception of Tunisia) or promote more equitable economic policies, the political and economic crises that impelled the uprisings and the processes of change they initiated are still underway and are unlikely to be …
Made in Egypt: Gendered Identity and Aspiration on the Globalised Shop Floor by Leila Zaki Chakravarti
From February to December 2004 Leila Zaki Chakravarti worked in Egypt on the shop floor of an enterprise she calls “Fashion Express”—a private-sector garment-assembly factory owned by Qasim Fahmy, a local Port Said notable. Made in Egypt: Gendered Identity and Aspiration on the Globalised Shop Floor is the ethnographic report of her participant observation. Chakravarti’s research is over a decade old, and the firm went out of business in August 2…
Mériam N. Belli. An Incurable Past: Nasser's Egypt Then and Now
Mériam N. Belli has deployed a wide array of sources for An Incurable Past: Nasser's Egypt Then and Now: non-Egyptian diplomatic documents, press clippings, films (important for a largely illiterate society), fiction, public performances, and oral history. This allows her to compile credible accounts of the popular memory of “the revolution,” as most Egyptians call the military coup of July 23, 1952, that ousted the monarchy and brought Jamal ‘Ab…
Civil Society, Ngos, and Egypt's 2011 Popular Uprising
Western policymakers, scholars, and foundations share a broad consensus that a dynamic civil society, often reduced to the presence of NGOs, is the essential ingredient of democracy. Although the concept of civil society is imprecisely and ubiquitously deployed, rendering it of dubious analytical utility, it has been widely applied to the Arab region. Despite the proliferation of Arab NGOs and other forms of association, authoritarian Arab regime…
Le rôle des ouvriers dans les soulèvements populaires arabes de 2011
Les classes ouvrières du Maroc, de Bahreïn, de Jordanie et surtout d'Égypte et de Tunisie ont d'évidence participé aux soulèvements populaires du monde arabe de 2011 après avoir durant des années implicitement répudié les politiques néolibérales du « consensus de Washington ». On appréhende mieux leur rôle dans ces soulèvements à la lumière d'une combinaison d'économie politique historique et d'une version modifiée de la théorie des mouvements so…
The Arab Revolts: Dispatches on Militant Democracy in the Middle East
Egyptian Workers and January 25th: A Social Movement in Historical Context
The largest Arab country, with a political life that has a broad pan-Arab resonance, Egypt saw between 2 and 4 million of its workers participate in some 3,400 to 4,000 strikes and other collective actions from 1998 to 2010, a movement sustained with no support from the state-sponsored Egyptian Trade Union Federation. Their movement provided numerous occasions for exercises in participatory democracy. When workers did begin to speak about politic…
Egypt after Mubarak: Liberalism, Islam, and Democracy in the Arab World * by Bruce K. Rutherford
Bruce K. Rutherford's Egypt after Mubarak is a worthy addition to the Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics series edited by Dale F. Eickelman and Augustus Richard Norton. Like several of the other volumes in the series, it aims to dispel widespread misconceptions about Islam and politics in Muslim-majority states. It is well-informed and based on careful research, much of it using Arabic sources. Its arguments are mostly judiciously framed and ac…
Workers and Egypt's January 25 Revolution
One of the less noticed events of the “January 25 Revolution,” as Egyptians call the popular uprising that ousted President Hosni Mubarak, is the formation of the Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions (EFITU). Its existence was announced at a press conference on January 30, 2011, in Cairo's Tahrir Square—the epicenter of the popular movement. The independent unions of Real Estate Tax Authority workers, healthcare technicians, and teache…
Workers' Protest in Egypt: Neo-liberalism and Class Struggle in 21st Century
From 1998 to 2008 some 2 million Egyptian workers participated in 2,623 factory occupations, strikes, demonstrations, or other collective actions. This social movement does not have a national leadership or program and has not been supported by the Egyptian Trade Union Federation. It is propelled by locally generated grievances that have been produced by the acceleration of the neo-liberal transformation of Egypt since 2004. This workers movement…
The Oslo Process and the Limits of a Pax Americana
The Struggle for Sovereignty: Palestine and Israel, 1993-2005
After the 1993 Oslo Accords people across the world anticipated the onset of peace and an end to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. For Israelis, the Accords generated massive economic growth and a sense of security. For Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, they led to a dramatic rise in poverty and unemployment due to a complex array of closures, militarized checkpoints, and bypass roads, and a vast expansion of the settlement projec…
F orgetfulness for M emory: T he L imits of the N ew I sraeli H istory
Many believe that the ““new historians”” represent a revolution in Israeli intellectual life. However, the exclusion of Arab voices and sources of evidence, especially in the work of Benny Morris, limited the extent of that revolution and situates some of the new history close to traditional Zionist categories of knowledge. This historical exclusion partly explains Morris's retreat to the Israeli political center since the outbreak of the second …
Political Islam and the New Global Economy: The Political Economy of an Egyptian Social Movement
Political Islam and the New Global Economy:The Political Economy of an Egyptian Social Movement Joel Beinin (bio) Since September 11th, 2001, much ink has been spilled discussing "Islamic fundamentalism" or, ostensibly more authoritatively but not necessarily more precisely, "Wahhabism" and its threat to U.S. national security and Western civilization. The armed radicals of al-Qa'ida and similar groups, while they have received the lion's share o…
No More Tears: Benny Morris and the Road Back from Liberal Zionism
The Last Jews in Baghdad: Remembering a Lost Homeland
Once upon a time, Baghdad was home to a flourishing Jewish community. More than a third of the city's people were Jews, and Jewish customs and holidays helped set the pattern of Baghdad's cultural and commercial life. On the city's streets and in the bazaars, Jews, Muslims, and Christians—all native-born Iraqis—intermingled, speaking virtually the same colloquial Arabic and sharing a common sense of national identity. And then, almost overnight i…
The New American McCarthyism: Policing Thought about the Middle East
September 11 ushered in a sustained campaign by the American Right and the Bush administration to delegitimise critical thought about the Middle East, Islam and the Arab world. The Middle East Studies Association (MESA) has borne much of the brunt of this campaign, some of it conducted by think-tanks with close links to Israel's ruling circles. Such attacks on MESA date back to 1967 and the Arab-Israeli war. The role of organisations such as ADL,…
Middle East Studies After September 11, 2001
The office of MESA president is mainly honorific; the associated duties are normally not particularly onerous. The very capable staff of the secretariat does most of the hard work involved in running this organization. None of you could have known at the time of the MESA elections in the summer and early fall of 2000 that you would be giving me the opportunity to serve as your president in the post-September 11, 2001 era, when public interest in …
Political Islam: "Essays from "Middle East Report
Modern political movements proclaiming missions and legitimacy based on religious tradition are a feature of many late 20th-century societies. Although such movements are not exclusive to the East, political Islam has achieved high visibility because of the serious challenge to established power it has posed in a region central to the West's strategic interests. This reader brings together both original articles and writing on political Islam pub…
Workers' Protest in Egypt: Neo-liberalism and Class Struggle in 21st Century
From 1998 to 2008 some 2 million Egyptian workers participated in 2,623 factory occupations, strikes, demonstrations, or other collective actions. This social movement does not have a national leadership or program and has not been supported by the Egyptian Trade Union Federation. It is propelled by locally generated grievances that have been produced by the acceleration of the neo-liberal transformation of Egypt since 2004. This workers movement…
Was the Red Flag Flying There: Marxist Politics and the Arab-Israeli Conflict in Egypt and Israel, 1948-1965
Was the Red Flag Flying There? examines the Palestinian/Arab-Israeli conflict through the lens of Marxist politics. Joel Beinin asks how the proposal to partition Palestine into an Arab and a Jewish state--a solution endorsed by international consensus in 1947-49--became an obscure and even unthinkable option by the mid-1960s. As the most consistent adherents of the two-state solution both before and after the establishment of the state of Israel…
Workers on the Nile: Nationalism, Communism, Islam, and the Egyptian Working Class, 1882-1954
Labor, Capital, and the State in Nasserist Egypt, 1952–1961
In the decade before the military coup of July 23, 1952, an increasingly militant workers' movement was an important component of the social and political upheaval that undermined the monarchy and ended the era of British colonialism in Egypt. The ebbs and flows of the labor movement coincided with successive upsurges of the nationalist movement. Working class participation in the nationalist struggle infused the movement for full independence an…
Political Islam and the New Global Economy: The Political Economy of an Egyptian Social Movement
Political Islam and the New Global Economy:The Political Economy of an Egyptian Social Movement Joel Beinin (bio) Since September 11th, 2001, much ink has been spilled discussing "Islamic fundamentalism" or, ostensibly more authoritatively but not necessarily more precisely, "Wahhabism" and its threat to U.S. national security and Western civilization. The armed radicals of al-Qa'ida and similar groups, while they have received the lion's share o…
Workers on the Nile: Nationalism, Communism, Islam, and the Egyptian Working Class, 1882-1954
Civil Society, Ngos, and Egypt's 2011 Popular Uprising
Western policymakers, scholars, and foundations share a broad consensus that a dynamic civil society, often reduced to the presence of NGOs, is the essential ingredient of democracy. Although the concept of civil society is imprecisely and ubiquitously deployed, rendering it of dubious analytical utility, it has been widely applied to the Arab region. Despite the proliferation of Arab NGOs and other forms of association, authoritarian Arab regime…
F orgetfulness for M emory: T he L imits of the N ew I sraeli H istory
Many believe that the ““new historians”” represent a revolution in Israeli intellectual life. However, the exclusion of Arab voices and sources of evidence, especially in the work of Benny Morris, limited the extent of that revolution and situates some of the new history close to traditional Zionist categories of knowledge. This historical exclusion partly explains Morris's retreat to the Israeli political center since the outbreak of the second …
Workers on the Nile: Nationalism, Communism, Islam, and the Egyptian Working Class, 1882-1954
Egyptian Workers and January 25th: A Social Movement in Historical Context
The largest Arab country, with a political life that has a broad pan-Arab resonance, Egypt saw between 2 and 4 million of its workers participate in some 3,400 to 4,000 strikes and other collective actions from 1998 to 2010, a movement sustained with no support from the state-sponsored Egyptian Trade Union Federation. Their movement provided numerous occasions for exercises in participatory democracy. When workers did begin to speak about politic…
Political Economy and Public Culture in a State of Constant Conflict: 50 Years of Jewish Statehood
L'article est consacre a l'Etat d'Israel, a l'histoire de son economie et de sa culture durant le demi-siecle qui a suivi sa fondation en 1948. L'A. en se basant sur de nouveaux historiens israeliens montre que le conflit prolonge d'Israel avec ses voisins a structure la societe israelienne. Son organisation, sa politique et sa culture ont ete marques par des interets economiques, des attitudes coloniales, la militarisation de la societe et de la…
Exile and Political Activism: The Egyptian-Jewish Communists in Paris, 1950-59
Diaspora 2:1 1992 Exile and Political Activism: The Egyptian-Jewish Communists in Paris, 1950-59 Joel Hein in Stanford University Frederick Barth's classic essay on the social construction ofethnic boundaries is one of the landmarks in the discrediting of the notion that culture and identity are essences inherent in racially and geographically distinct ethnic groups. In opposition to the exoticist essentialism of many anthropologists of his day, …
Political Parties in the West Bank under the Jordanian Regime, 1949-1967
Le rôle des ouvriers dans les soulèvements populaires arabes de 2011
Les classes ouvrières du Maroc, de Bahreïn, de Jordanie et surtout d'Égypte et de Tunisie ont d'évidence participé aux soulèvements populaires du monde arabe de 2011 après avoir durant des années implicitement répudié les politiques néolibérales du « consensus de Washington ». On appréhende mieux leur rôle dans ces soulèvements à la lumière d'une combinaison d'économie politique historique et d'une version modifiée de la théorie des mouvements so…
Workers and Egypt's January 25 Revolution
One of the less noticed events of the “January 25 Revolution,” as Egyptians call the popular uprising that ousted President Hosni Mubarak, is the formation of the Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions (EFITU). Its existence was announced at a press conference on January 30, 2011, in Cairo's Tahrir Square—the epicenter of the popular movement. The independent unions of Real Estate Tax Authority workers, healthcare technicians, and teache…
The New American McCarthyism: Policing Thought about the Middle East
September 11 ushered in a sustained campaign by the American Right and the Bush administration to delegitimise critical thought about the Middle East, Islam and the Arab world. The Middle East Studies Association (MESA) has borne much of the brunt of this campaign, some of it conducted by think-tanks with close links to Israel's ruling circles. Such attacks on MESA date back to 1967 and the Arab-Israeli war. The role of organisations such as ADL,…
Is Terrorism a Useful Term in Understanding the Middle East and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
Writing Class: Workers and Modern Egyptian Colloquial Poetry (Zajal)
Zajal, colloquial Arabic poetry in strophic form, was primarily an oral art until it was appropriated by Egyptian nationalist literati in late nineteenth century. The work of Ya'qub Sannu' (1839-1912), 'Abd Allah al-Nadim (1844-1896), Mahmud Bayram al-Tunisi (1893-1961), and Ahmad Fu'ad Nigm (b. 1929) established genre as a literary form identified with populist Egyptian patriotism and comprising a poetic anti-canon which, through its language, s…
Henri Curiel and the Egyptian Communist Movement
Research Article| October 01 1989 Henri Curiel and the Egyptian Communist Movement Joel Beinin Joel Beinin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1989) 1989 (45): 157–163. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1989-45-157 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Joel Beinin; Henri Curiel and the Egyptian Communist Movement. Radical History Review 1 Oct…
Middle East Studies After September 11, 2001
The office of MESA president is mainly honorific; the associated duties are normally not particularly onerous. The very capable staff of the secretariat does most of the hard work involved in running this organization. None of you could have known at the time of the MESA elections in the summer and early fall of 2000 that you would be giving me the opportunity to serve as your president in the post-September 11, 2001 era, when public interest in …
The Israelization of American Middle East Policy Discourse
Research Article| June 01 2003 The Israelization of American Middle East Policy Discourse Joel Beinin Joel Beinin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2003) 21 (2 (75)): 125–140. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-21-2_75-125 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Joel Beinin; The Israelization of American Middle East Policy Discourse. Social Text 1 June 2003; 21 (2 (75)): 125–140…
Knowing Your Enemy, Knowing Your Ally: The Arabists of Hashomer Hatza'ir (Mapam)
One of the less-noticed casualties of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait was the Israeli peace movement. While it did not endorse the US-led military response to the Gulf crisis, the Palestine Liberation Organization did not support Iraq's seizure of Kuwait. However, many Palestinians in Jordan, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip and even in Israel proper enthusiastically embraced Saddam Hussein's challenge to the Middle Eastern status quo. In response, sev…
Class and Politics in Middle Eastern Societies. A Review Article
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Lost in the Sadat Fanfare: Likud's New Economic Policy
Israel: The Embattled Ally
Uri Davis' Israel
Challenge from Israel's Military
Formation of the Egyptian Working Class
Egypt's Transition under Nasser
Criticism and Defeat: An Introduction to George Hawi
Political Parties in the West Bank under the Jordanian Regime, 1949-1967
State Policies and the Position of Women Workers in the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, 1966-77
Occupied Palestine
Egypt's Left Opposition Party Holds Second Congress
The Cold Peace
The Middle East Since Camp David
Marching toward Civil War
Private Capital in Israel
Civil-Military Relations: Between Battles and Ballots: Israeli Military in Politics. . Yoram Peri
Civil-Military Relations: Between Battles and Ballots: Israeli Military in Politics, by Yoram Peri
Class and Politics in Middle Eastern Societies. A Review Article
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Hilton Obenzinger: "The Pressure should be on the US and Israel to Recognize the PLO"
Hilton Obenzinger, Joel Beinin, Hilton Obenzinger: "The Pressure should be on the US and Israel to Recognize the PLO", MERIP Middle East Report, No. 146, Twenty Years After (May - Jun., 1987), pp. 31-32
Bernard Lewis's Anti-Semites
Palestine for Beginners
From Land Day to Equality Day
"The State Cannot Make Criminals of Those Who want Peace"
Zionism and the Arabs, 1882–1948: A Study of Ideology, by Yosef Gorny, translated from Hebrew by Chaya Galal. x + 342 pages, index. Clarendon, Oxford1987. $67.00
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Workers on the Nile: Nationalism, Communism, Islam, and the Egyptian Working Class, 1882-1954
Political science (66 works) · Law (49 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (44 works) · Politics (44 works) · History (43 works) · Sociology (33 works) · Ancient history (26 works) · Law (23 works) · Middle East Politics and Society (20 works) · Political economy (18 works)