Middle East Research and Information Project

Critical Coverage of the Middle East Since 1971

Joel Beinin

Joel Beinin is Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and professor of Middle East history at Stanford University and a contributing editor of Middle East Report.

Current Analysis

The Demise of the Oslo Process

Following the death of King Husayn and the accession of Abdullah II, the Clinton administration and the International Monetary Fund expressed their support for the new Jordanian ruler by committing $450 million in new aid on top of $225 million committed by the US earlier this year. The US is also i

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Political Islam

Essays from Middle East Report

Joel Beinin, Joe Stork • 1 min read

Marxism and Postmodernism

During the Thatcher-Reagan-Bush era, just as critical intellectuals and left political activists had won a small place for the concepts of political economy and class analysis in academia, postmodernism and post-structuralism replaced Marxism as the favored mode of Anglo-American intellectual radica

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Intifada

The Palestinian Uprising Against Israeli Occupation

Zachary Lockman, Joel Beinin • 1 min read

Shafir, Land, Labor and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Gershon Shafir, Land, Labor and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1882-1914 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989).

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Marching Toward Civil War

In an article written in early 1985, Ze’ev Schiff described the Palestinian and Jewish populations of Israel and the Occupied Territories as “marching...toward a civil war.” [1] Since then, events have only confirmed the accuracy of Schiff’s observation. The escalation of violence and tension in the

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Egypt's Left Opposition Party Holds Second Congress

Cairo, July 2. The National Progressive Unionist Party (Tagammu‘) held its second national congress in Cairo on June 27-28, 1985. The Tagammu‘, Egypt’s principal left opposition party, is a united front formation including members of illegal communist organizations, independent Marxists, Nasserists,

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Molyneux, State Policies and the Position of Women Workers in the PDRY

Maxine Molyneux, State Policies and the Position of Women Workers in the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, 1966-1977 (Geneva: International Labor Office, 1982).

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Koff, Occupied Palestine

David Koff, Occupied Palestine (E Cinema Six Productions, 1981). David Koff and his team have made a complex, sensitive and brutally authentic movie. Occupied Palestine delivers its message with unnerving sharpness and accuracy. For these very reasons it may strike those who are not intimately fami

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