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He has been a contributing editor to [[Middle East Report]] [http://www.stanford.edu/~beinin/] and has 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]].<ref>[http://www.stanford.edu/~beinin/ Joel Beinin's personal web page]. Last accessed January 31, 2007.</ref> |
He has been a contributing editor to [[Middle East Report]] [http://www.stanford.edu/~beinin/] and has 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]].<ref>[http://www.stanford.edu/~beinin/ Joel Beinin's personal web page]. Last accessed January 31, 2007.</ref> |
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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 in Israel and Egypt. |
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 but has publicly stated his hatred of Israeli society. |
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Beinin has been involved in spats and disputes almost since his arrival at Stanford. In spite of his political views, he was made part of the Stanford's new Jewish Studies program. He carried placards of protest on Israel's Independence Day in White Plaza. He carried out a public quarrel with Daniel Pipes with many exchanged personal attacks on each side. He was criticized in the Stanford Review for teaching canards as facts (http://www.stanfordreview.org/Archive/Volume_XXXV/Issue_2/Features/features3.shtml). Among the misteachings were a videotaped lecture citing the amount of total aid Israel has received from the United States since 1948 as a trillion dollars, more than a tenfold inflation of the true number. Beinin eventually apologized for the mistake in a Stanford Daily interview, but only after sending out the videotapes for a period of several years, in spite of ongoing student complaints about them. Beinin did not admit to other errors cited in the article, such as teaching that Palestinian Arabs descended from Canaanites, that the Western and Southern Walls were not part of the Jewish Herodian Temple of 2000 years ago, and that there was no Jewish presence in Palestine during a 1,500 year period that was actually pregnant with events in Jewish history. |
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⚫ | Beinin has written four books from the Marxist worker narrative , co-edited three others and published scholarly articles. While factually based students have expressed reservations about his teaching, he remained a popular teacher among the politically correct crowd and was named Director of Graduate Studies in the History Department when he took a leave of absence from Stanford to take the position of Director of Middle East Studies at the American University of Cairo. At the time he said that Stanford was institutionally uninterested in the study and teaching of the modern Middle East. In his latest home he has written critical articles of the Mubarak regime and is known as the "Jew" of UAC. |
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== David Horowitz lawsuit == |
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Beinin filed a lawsuit against neo-conservative writer and activist [[David Horowitz (conservative writer)|David Horowitz]] for copyright infringement regarding Horowit's use of a photo of Beinin taken from his Stanford University website on the cover of Horowitz's booklet "Campus Support for Terrorism". The photo in question was originally taken for the jacket of one of Beinin's books. Beinin acquired the rights to the photo from photographer Ted Mock, a year after it had appeared on the booklet.<ref>David Horowitz: [http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=22536 Joel Beinin: Apologist for Terrorists], ''FrontPageMagazine.com'', May 19, 2006</ref> Horowitz believes that U.S. copyright law allows the use of photographs of prominent people for the purpose of comment and criticism.<ref>Carrie Sturrock: [http://www.spme.net/cgi-bin/articles.cgi?ID=928 Stanford ideological war leads to suit: Beinin sues Horowitz], ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'', August 4, 2006</ref> and rhetorically questioned why Beinin had not sued for libel, if he believed any part of Horowitz' accusation to be provably untrue. The case is still under adjudication but is expected to be resolved out of court in the near future. |
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==Bibliography, books (partial):== |
==Bibliography, books (partial):== |
Revision as of 19:18, 22 September 2007
Joel Beinin, Ph. D. is a professor of Middle East History on extended leave from Stanford University, where he taught from 1983-2006. He currently serves as Director of the Middle East Studies Department at the American University in Cairo.
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 Middle East Report [1] and has 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 but has publicly stated his hatred of Israeli society.
Beinin has been involved in spats and disputes almost since his arrival at Stanford. In spite of his political views, he was made part of the Stanford's new Jewish Studies program. He carried placards of protest on Israel's Independence Day in White Plaza. He carried out a public quarrel with Daniel Pipes with many exchanged personal attacks on each side. He was criticized in the Stanford Review for teaching canards as facts (http://www.stanfordreview.org/Archive/Volume_XXXV/Issue_2/Features/features3.shtml). Among the misteachings were a videotaped lecture citing the amount of total aid Israel has received from the United States since 1948 as a trillion dollars, more than a tenfold inflation of the true number. Beinin eventually apologized for the mistake in a Stanford Daily interview, but only after sending out the videotapes for a period of several years, in spite of ongoing student complaints about them. Beinin did not admit to other errors cited in the article, such as teaching that Palestinian Arabs descended from Canaanites, that the Western and Southern Walls were not part of the Jewish Herodian Temple of 2000 years ago, and that there was no Jewish presence in Palestine during a 1,500 year period that was actually pregnant with events in Jewish history.
Beinin has written four books from the Marxist worker narrative , co-edited three others and published scholarly articles. While factually based students have expressed reservations about his teaching, he remained a popular teacher among the politically correct crowd and was named Director of Graduate Studies in the History Department when he took a leave of absence from Stanford to take the position of Director of Middle East Studies at the American University of Cairo. At the time he said that Stanford was institutionally uninterested in the study and teaching of the modern Middle East. In his latest home he has written critical articles of the Mubarak regime and is known as the "Jew" of UAC.
David Horowitz lawsuit
Beinin filed a lawsuit against neo-conservative writer and activist David Horowitz for copyright infringement regarding Horowit's use of a photo of Beinin taken from his Stanford University website on the cover of Horowitz's booklet "Campus Support for Terrorism". The photo in question was originally taken for the jacket of one of Beinin's books. Beinin acquired the rights to the photo from photographer Ted Mock, a year after it had appeared on the booklet.[2] Horowitz believes that U.S. copyright law allows the use of photographs of prominent people for the purpose of comment and criticism.[3] and rhetorically questioned why Beinin had not sued for libel, if he believed any part of Horowitz' accusation to be provably untrue. The case is still under adjudication but is expected to be resolved out of court in the near future.
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
Bibliography, articles (partial):
“Anti-Semitism: The Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia,” Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World (forthcoming).
“Knowing the Other: Arabs, Islam, and the Western Cultural Tradition,” in Contemporary Issues in Race and Ethnicity, Hazel Markus and Paula Moya, eds. (Norton Press, forthcoming).
“Egyptian Textile Workers: From Craft Artisans Facing European Competition to Proletarians Contending with the State,” in Covering the World: A Global History of Textile Workers, 1650-2000, Lex Heerma van Voss, et al, eds. (Ashgate Press, forthcoming).
- Egyptian Textile Workers Confront the New Economic Order with Hossam el-Hamalawy, Middle East Report Online, Mar. 25, 2007
- Silencing Critics Not Way to Middle East Peace San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 4, 2007
- Why Hamas Won and Why Negotiations Must Resume San Francisco Chronicle (2/8/06)
- Deflating Middle East Extremism Aug. 10, 2006
“The New McCarthyism: Policing Thought about the Middle East” in Academic Freedom after 9/11, Beshara Doumani, ed., (Zone Press, 2006);
“Forgetfulness for Memory: The Limits of the New Israeli History,” Journal of Palestine Studies 35 (no. 2, winter 2005):6-23.
“Political Islam and the New Global Economy: The Political Economy of an Egyptian Social Movement,” The New Centennial Review 5 (no. 1, spring 2005):111-39.
- No More Tears: Benny Morris and the Road Back from Liberal Zionism Middle East Report Spring 2004
- The Imperial Lament July 2004, in Middle East Report Interventions
- The Good War, The Nation May 31, 2004 .
- Thought Control for Middle East Studies March 31, 2004 Right Web
“Imposed Normalization and Cultural Transgression: Cultural Politics in Egypt and Israel since the 1979 Peace Treaty,” in John Bunzl (ed.) In God's Name? Islam, Judaism and the Political Role of Religions in the Middle East (Florida Universities Press, 2004), pp. 137-55.
“The Karaites in Modern Egypt,” in Meira Polliack (ed.), Karaite Judaism: A Guide to its History and Literary Sources (Brill Press, 2003), pp. 417-30.
“The United States-Israeli Alliance,” in Tony Kushner and Alisa Solomon (eds.) Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Grove Atlantic Press, 2003), pp. 41-50.
“Middle East Studies after September 11: Presidential Address to the Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association of North America,” MESA Bulletin 37 (no. 1, Summer 2003):2-18 *MESA 2002 Presidential Address and Awards Ceremony
- Sharon's Unilateral Steps December 31, 2003 in MERIP
- The Israelization of American Middle East Policy Discourse Social Text 21 (no. 2, summer 2003):125-39.
- Is Terrorism a Useful Term in Understanding the Middle East and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict? Radical History Review, Issue 85 (winter 2003): 12–23
- Pro-Israel Hawks and the Second Gulf War Middle East Report Online, April 6, 2003
- Watch and tell: Tel-Aviv's influence on American institutions July 2003 Le Monde diplomatique.
- US: the pro-Sharon thinktank: Tel-Aviv's influence on American institutions Le Monde diplomatique, July 2003.
- The Israeli Election Campaign Avoids the Issues January 14, 2003 in MERIP
- Who's Watching the Watchers? 9-30-02 in History News Network
- Outspoken Stanford prof supports 2-state-solution March 15, 2002 The Jewish News Weekly of Northern California
- Camp David II July 26, 2000 in MERIP
- Interpreting the Israel's 1999 Election Campaign April 16, 1999 in MERIP
References
- ^ Joel Beinin's personal web page. Last accessed January 31, 2007.
- ^ David Horowitz: Joel Beinin: Apologist for Terrorists, FrontPageMagazine.com, May 19, 2006
- ^ Carrie Sturrock: Stanford ideological war leads to suit: Beinin sues Horowitz, San Francisco Chronicle, August 4, 2006