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JOEL BEININ DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY STANFORD UNIVERSITY STANFORD, CA 94305-2024 (650) 723-4956 FAX: (650) 725-0597 E-MAIL: beinin@stanford.edu
EDUCATION 1982 Ph.D. University of Michigan (History) 1978 A.M.L.S. University of Michigan (Library Science) 1974 A.M. Harvard University (Middle East Studies) 1971-72 graduate study, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (History of the Islamic Countries) 1970 A.B. Princeton University (Near Eastern Studies) magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa 1969 Center for Arabic Study Abroad, American University in Cairo
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 1996- Professor, Department of History, Stanford University Fall 2001 Sultan Visiting Professor of Middle East Studies, University of California, Berkeley 1995-99 Director, Program in Modern Thought and Literature, Stanford University 1990-96 Associate Professor, Department of History, Stanford University Fall 1989 Senior Associate Member, St. Antony's College (Oxford) 1983-90 Assistant Professor, Department of History, Stanford University 1982 Lecturer, Center for Near Eastern and North African Studies, University of Michigan 1982-83 Instructor, Division of Social Sciences, Henry Ford Community College 1979-83 Assistant Librarian, Near East Division, Graduate Library, University of Michigan
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS AND AWARDS Fellow, Center for Arabic Study Abroad,Cairo(2004) Knight Favorite Professor (2004) Graduate Service Recognition Award (2004) Hewlett Faculty Research Grant, 2003 (Egypt) Distinguished Visiting Professor, Department of History, American University in Cairo, December 2002 Mellon Foundation, Sawyer Seminar grant, 2002-04 Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center, 1999-2000 Fellow, University of California Humanities Research Institute, Winter 2000 (declined) Hewlett Faculty Research Grant, 1997 (Palestine, and Israel) Social Science Research Council Advanced Research Grant, 1994 (Israel and France) Fulbright Research Grant, 1992-93 (Israel and Egypt) Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching, 1990 Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center, 1987-88 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1987 (research in Israel) Fellow, American Research Center in Egypt, 1986 Pew Foundation Grant, 1985, 1987 (research in Israel) National Endowment for the Humanities Travel to Collections Grant, 1984, 1988 (England and Israel) Fellow, Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Abroad Program, 1980-81 (Egypt, France, and England)
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Co-Editor, Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures, 2004- President, Middle East Studies Association of North America, 2001-02 Board of Directors, Middle East Studies Association of North America, 1993-96, 2000-03 Selection Committee Center for Arabic Study Abroad, for 2004-05 Coordinator, California Middle East Social and Cultural History Association, 1999- Editorial Committee, Middle East Report , 1981-97, 2003 -(Chair 1987; Reviews Editor, 1988-95; Contributing Editor,1999-2003) Co-organizer, Conference on Globalization, Political Islam, and Urban Social Movements, University of California, Berkeley, March 6-8, 1998 Board of Directors, Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP), 1987-88, 1991-97 Chair, Nominations Committee, Middle East Studies Association, 1992 Fellowship Committee, American Research Center in Egypt, 1992 Advisory Board, Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, 1990-2001 Nominations Committee, American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch, 1990- 92 Program Committee, Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, 1984 Referee for: International Journal of Middle East Studies , Middle East Journal , Cambridge University Press, Columbia University Press, Stanford University Press, State University of New York Press, University of California Press, University of Texas Press, John T. and Catherine MacArthur Foundation, Australian Research Council, and others Member: AHA, ARCE, MESA, CAL-MESCHA, PARC PUBLICATIONS Books Workers and Peasants in the Modern Middle East (Cambridge University Press, 2001) The Dispersion of Egyptian Jewry: Culture, Politics, and the Formation of a Modern Diaspora University of California Press, 1998). Political Islam: Essays from Middle East Report (University of California Press, 1996); co- edited with Joe Stork Was the Red Flag Flying There? Marxist Politics and the Arab-Israeli Conflict in Egypt and Israel, 1948-1965 (University of California Press, 1990). Arabic translation: al-`Alam al-ahmar: hal kana yurafrif hunak? al-siyasat al-markisiyya wa'l-niza` al-`arabi al-isra'ili (Cairo: Dar al-Thaqafa al-Jadida, 1996) Intifada: The Palestinian Uprising Against Israeli Occupation (South End Press, 1989); co-edited with Zachary Lockman Workers on the Nile: Nationalism, Communism, Islam and the Egyptian Working Class, 1882-1954 (Princeton University Press, 1987); co-authored with Zachary Lockman. Arabic translation: al-`Ummal wa'l-haraka al-siyasiyya fi misr: al-wataniyya, al-shuyu`iyya, al-islamiyya , 2 vols. (Cairo: Markaz al-Buhuth al-`Arabiyya, 1992, 1996). 2 nd edition: American University in Cairo Press (1998) Articles and Book Chapters “The New American McCarthyism: Policing Thought about the Middle East,” Race & Class 46 (no. 1, July-September 2004):101-15. “No More Tears: Benny Morris and the Road Back from Liberal Zionism,” Middle East Report no. 240 (Spring 2004):38-45. "Jews as Native Iraqis: An Introduction," Foreword to Nissim Rejwan's The Last Jews in Baghdad (University of Texas Press, 2004), pp. xi-xxii. "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 "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 no. 85 (winter 2003):12-23 "Anti-Zionism, Anti-Semitism, and the Jewish Community in Egypt, 1939 to the Present," Hagar: International Social Science Review 3 (no. 1, 2002):51-66 "Late Capitalism and the Reformation of the Working Classes in the Middle East," in Histories of the Modern Middle East: New Directions , Israel Gershoni, Hakan Erdem, and Ursula Wökek eds., (Lynne Rienner Press, 2002). "Letter from the President," MESA Newsletter 24 (No. 2, May 2002) . "The Jewish Business Elite in Twentieth Century Egypt: Pillars of the National Economy or Compradors?" Bulletin of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies 1 (no. 2, Autumn 1999): 113-38. "Remapping the West: Teaching the Middle East in World and Western Civilization Courses," (revised version; original in AHA Perspectives , December 1992) in Perspectives on Teaching Innovations: World and Global History (American Historical Association, 1999):55-62. "The Working Class and Peasantry in the Middle East: From Economic Nationalism to Neoliberalism," Middle East Report no. 210 (Spring 1999):18-22. "Palestine and Israel: Perils of a Neoliberal, Repressive, Pax Americana," Social Justice 25 (no. 4, 1998):20-39. "Society and Economy, 1923-1952," in The Cambridge History of Egypt , M.W. Daly ed., (Cambridge University Press, 1998) 2:309-33. "Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Movements" and "Egyptian Revolts (1880-1919)," in The Encyclopedia of Political Revolutions (Congressional Quarterly Books, 1998):149-51. "Political Economy and Public Culture in a State of Constant Conflict: 50 Years of Jewish Statehood," Jewish Social Studies 4 (no. 3, 1998):96-141. "The Israeli Peace Movement" (review essay), Middle East Report no. 205 (Oct.-Dec. 1997):45-46. "I am Jewish because I am Egyptian. I am Egyptian because I am Jewish." (interview with Jacques Hassoun), MERIP Newsletter (Winter 1997):2-3. "The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict after Oslo" (review essay), Middle East Report no. 201 (Oct.-Dec. 1996): 45-47. "Nazis and Spies: Representations of Israeli Espionage and Terrorism in Egypt," Jewish Social Studies 2 (no. 3, 1996):54-84. "On the Modernity, Historical Specificity and International Context of Political Islam" (co-author, Joe Stork), in Joel Beinin and Joe Stork (eds.), Political Islam: Essays from Middle East Report (University of California Press, 1996):3-31. "Egyptian Jewish Identities: Communitarianisms, Nationalisms, Nostalgias," Stanford Humanities Review 5 (no. 1, 1995):92-119; reprinted in Goshen: Bulletin des juifs d'Egypte en Israël no. 16 (January 2000):14 -22. "Law, Ideology, and Social Change in Israel: Response to Roselle Tekiner," Contention 4 (no. 2, Winter 1995):175-81. "The Holocaust and the Politics of Memory" (review essay). Radical History Review no. 60 (Fall 1994):217-23. "Writing Class: Workers and Modern Egyptian Colloquial Poetry ( Zajal )," Poetics Today 15 (no. 2, Summer 1994):191-215. "Arms Transfers, the New Structure of U.S. Hegemony, and Prospects for Democratic Development in the Gulf," in War and its Consequences: Lessons from the Persian Gulf Conflict , John O'Loughlin, Thomas Meyer, and Edward S. Greenberg, eds. (HarperCollins, 1994):87-104; partial German translation in Inamo: Berichte & Analysen zu Politik und Gesellschaft des Nahen und Mittleren Ostens 2 (Winter 1996):8-11. "Will the Real Egyptian Working Class Please Stand Up?" in Workers and Working Classes in the Middle East: Struggles, Histories, Historiographies , Zachary Lockman, ed. (State University of New York Press, 1993):247-70. "Becoming a Jew without Borders," Stanford Humanities Review 3 (no. 1, 1993):137-42. "Gamal Abdel Nasser" and "Nasserism" in Oxford Companion to Politics of the World (Oxford University Press, 1993):612-14. "Jawanib min al-muqawama al-madaniyya al-misriyya: Markaz Ibn Khaldun" [Aspects of civil resistance in Egypt," translation of a review article from Middle East Report No. 179], al-Mujtama` al-madani no. 13 (January 1993):42-43. "Money, Media and Strategic Consensus: The Washington Institute for Near East Policy," Middle East Report , no. 180 (January-February 1993):10-15; Arabic translation in Ru'a mughayyira no. 1 (Feb. 1997):30-38. "New History, New Politics: A Revisionist Historical View," in The Struggle for Peace: Israelis and Palestinians , Elizabeth W. Fernea and Mary E. Hocking, eds. (University of Texas Press, 1992):80-86. "Exile and Political Activism: The Egyptian-Jewish Communist Emigrés in Paris, 1950-1959" Diaspora 2 (no. 1, 1992):73-94. "Yanayir 1977: al-tabaqa al-`amila wa'l-yasar al-misri" [January 1977: The Working Class and the Egyptian Left], in Ishkaliyyat al-takwin al-ijtima`i wa'l-fikriyyat al-sha`biyya fi misr: buhuth wa-munaqashat al-nadwa al-muhdah ila Ahmad Sadiq Sa`d, 3-5 mayu 1990 (Nicosia: Dar Ibal, 1992):305-16. "1919: Labor Upsurge and National Revolution," chapter from Workers on the Nile , in The Modern Middle East: A Reader , Albert Hourani, Philip Khoury and Mary Wilson, eds. (I.B. Tauris, 1992; University of California Press, 1994):395-428. "Knowing Your Enemy, Knowing Your Ally: The Arabists of Hashomer Hatza`ir (MAPAM)," Social Text no. 28 (July 1991):100-21; Hebrew translation in `Aravim ve-yehudim be-tekufat ha-mandat: mabat hadash `al ha-mehkar ha-histori [Jewish-Arab relations in mandatory Palestine: a new approach to historical research], Ilan Pappé, ed., (Givat Haviva: Center for Peace Research, 1995):179-201. "Airpower Redux," The Stanford Historian , no. 15 (July 1991):12-15. "Class, Ethnicity, Gender, National Conflict, and the Formation of Israeli Society" (review essay) Radical History Review , no. 51 (Fall 1991):114-23. "Labor, Capital and the State in Nasserist Egypt, 1952-1961," International Journal of Middle East Studies 21 (no. 1, 1989):71-90. "Islam, Marxism, and the Shubra al-Khaymah Textile Workers: Muslim Brothers and Communists in the Egyptian Trade Union Movement," in Islam, Politics, and Social Movements , Edmund Burke, III and Ira M. Lapidus, eds. (University of California Press, 1988):207-27. "Israel at Forty: The Political Economy/Political Culture of Constant Conflict," Arab Studies Quarterly 10 (no. 3, 1988):433-56. "From Land Day to Equality Day," MERIP Middle East Report , no. 150 (January-February 1988):24-27; expanded and updated version in Intifada. "Israel: The Political Economy of a Garrison State and its Future," in The Next Arab Decade: Alternative Futures , Hisham Sharabi, ed. (Westview & Mansell, 1988):241-54; Arabic translations in al-Mustaqbal al-`Arabi , no. 91 (September 1986) and al-`Aqd al-`arabi al-qadim: al-mustaqbalat al-badila (Georgetown University Center for Contemporary Arab Studies & Arab Unity Studies Center, 1986). "Palestine for Beginners," Middle East Report , no. 154 (September-October 1988); co-authored with Lisa Hajjar, expanded version in Intifada; revised and updated as "Palestine, Israel, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Primer" "The Communist Movement and Nationalist Political Discourse in Nasirist Egypt," Middle East Journal 41 (no. 4, 1987):568-84. "Egypt," Colliers Encyclopedia vol. 8 (1987):636-39, 641B-52. "al-Tabaqa al-`amila wa'l-sira` al-tabaqi fi misr, 1952-1961" [The Working Class and the Class Struggle in Egypt] Qadaya Fikriyya , no. 5 (May 1987). "Class and Politics in Middle Eastern Societies: A Review Article," Comparative Studies in Society and History 28 (no.3, 1986):552-57. "Islamic Responses to the Penetration of Capitalism in the Middle East," in The Islamic Impulse, Barbara Stowasser, ed. (Georgetown University Center for Contemporary Arab Studies & Croom Helm, 1986):87-105. "Private Capital in Israel," MERIP Middle East Report , no. 142 (September-October 1986):35-38. "Formation of the Egyptian Working Class," MERIP Reports , no. 94 (February 1981):14-23. "The Palestine Communist Party, 1919-1948," MERIP Reports , no. 55 (March 1977):3-16. Book Reviews in: American Historical Review, Arab Studies Quarterly, Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism, The European Legacy: Journal of the History of European Ideas, International Journal of Islamic and Arabic Studies, International Journal of Comparative Religion, International Journal of Islamic and Arabic Studies, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Journal of Developing Areas , Journal of Palestine Studies, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, Middle East Journal, MESA Bulletin, Middle East Report, Radical History Review From 1988 to 1995, thirty-one installments of a review essay column, "Editor's Bookshelf," appeared in Middle East Report . CONFERENCE PAPERS "Egyptian Textile Workers: From Craft Artisans Facing European Competition to Proletarians Contending with the State," International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam, November 11-13, 2004. "Neo-Cons and Middle East Scholars: The New McCarthyism,ä Academic Freedom after September 11, University of Califronia, Berkeley, February 27-28, 2004. "Benny Morris, The New Israeli History, and the Limits of the Zionist Peace Movement," Fourth Mediterranean Social and Political Research Meeting, European University Institute, Florence and Montecatini Terme, March 19-23, 2003. "Is There a Crisis in Middle East Academic Publishing?" introduction to special session at the annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association, Washington, DC, Nov.23-26, 2002. "The Rise and Decline of the Left Nationalist/Marxist Historical Paradigm in the Arab Middle East," workshop on Twentieth Century Historians and Historiography of the Middle East, Bogaziçi University, May 23-26, 2002. "The New Neo-liberal Order, Urban Workers, and the Islamic Current in Egypt," conference on Globalization, State Capacity, and Islamic Movements, Center for Global and Regional Studies, University of California at Santa Cruz, March 7-10, 2002. "The New History and the Israeli Peace Movement: Limits of Historical Method and Politics," Workshop on the New History and Israeli Public Culture, University of California, Santa Barbara, February 2, 2002. "Imposed Normalization and Cultural Transgression: Cultural Politics in Egypt and Israel since the 1979 Peace Treaty,ä Conference on Islam, Judaism, and the Political Role of Religions in the Middle East, Austrian Institute for International Affairs (Vienna), The Orient Institute (Hamburg), and the city of Vienna, Vienna, November 27-29, 2000. "Anti-Zionism, Anti-Semitism, and the Jewish Community in Egypt, 1939 to the Present," Conference on The Formation of Prejudice and Stereotypes in the Arab-Israeli Conflict, Center for Research on Antisemitism, Technical University Berlin, September 6-8, 2000. "Late Capitalist Crisis, Middle East Oil, and Political Islam,ä California Middle East Social and Cultural History Association," UC Berkeley, April 22, 2000. "Egypt and Israel Since the 1979 Peace Treaty: Cultural Politics in a Regime of Imposed Normalization," Workshop on Rethinking Muslims and Jews: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, National Resource Center on the Middle East, The Jewish Studies Initiative, and the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University, February 25, 2000. "Peasants, Workers, and the Pedagogical Project of Egyptian Nationalist Modernity," International Workshop on Modernity in the Middle East: History and Discourse, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, June 2, 1999. "Subaltern Experiences and Discourses of Modernity in Egypt," Empires and Cultures Workshop, Stanford University, May 15, 1999. "The Egyptian Nation and National Economic Development: A View from the Textile Mill Floor," Conference on Nation and Cultural Perceptions of Identity, UCLA, March 5-6, 1999. "Late Capitalism and the Reformation of the Working Class and the Peasantry in the Middle East," Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association, Chicago, December 3-6, 1998 and Conference on New Approaches to the Study of Ottoman and Arab Societies, Bogaziçi University, May 27-30, 1999. "The Islamic Current in the Egyptian Trade Union Movement," Conference on Globalization, Political Islam, and Urban Social Movements, University of California, Berkeley, March 6-8, 1998. "The Jewish Business Elite in Twentieth Century Egypt: Pillars of the National Economy or Compradors?" Conference on Muslim Arab Civilization: The Non-Muslim Dimensions, Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies, Amman, Jordan, Aug. 16-19, 1997 and International Conference on the Jews in Modern Egypt, International Association of Jews from Egypt and Columbia University Middle East Institute, Columbia University, Dec. 3-4, 1997. "Peace after the Handshake: A Neoliberal, Repressive Palestinian-Israeli Peace in the Shadow of Uncontested U.S. Regional Hegemony," Workshop on Peacemaking and Conflict Resolution at Home and Abroad, University of California, Santa Cruz, Center for Global, International, and Regional Studies, Feb. 27-28, 1997. "Egyptian Jewish Identities: Communalisms, Nationalisms, Nostalgias," Workshop on Rethinking Nationalism in the Arab World, University of Colorado, Boulder, Sept. 21-24, 1994. "Egyptian Jewry between Two Homelands," Conference on Jewish Nationalism in the Lands of Islam, Weizmann Institute for Research on Zionism, Tel Aviv University and Herzl Institute for Studies of Zionism, Haifa University, July 1-2, 1993. "Arms Transfers, Prospects for Democratic Development, and the New Structure of U.S. Hegemony in the Gulf," Conference on Long Term Consequences of the War in the Persian Gulf, University of Colorado, Boulder, October 8-11, 1992. "The Working Class in Modern Egyptian Zajal," Workshop on the Transmission of Culture in Arab and Islamic Societies, Tel Aviv University and Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, December 1991. "Non-Citizen Palestinian Labor in the Israeli Economy," Conference on Global Economies, Local Ethnicities: Culture and the Crisis of the National, Stanford University, November 7-9, 1991. "Exile and Political Activism: The Egyptian-Jewish Communist Emigrés in Paris," Annual Meeting, Middle East Studies Association, Washington, D.C., November 1991. "Will the Real Egyptian Working Class Please Stand Up?" Workshop on Middle Eastern Labor and Working Class History: Concepts and Approaches, Harvard University, April 11-12, 1990. "Communists against the Working Class? The Communist Intelligentsia and Working Class Opposition in Nasserist Egypt," UC Conference on Comparative Labor History, University of California, Santa Cruz, April 22, 1989. "The Arabists of Hashomer Hatza`ir (MAPAM): Power/Knowledge and Left Zionist Politics," Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association, Los Angeles, November 1988. "Why Doesn't the United States Promote a Peaceful Resolution of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict?" Frank Church Conference on Public Policy, Boise State University, Boise IA, September 1988. "Israeli Strategy in the 'Peace Process' in Historical Perspective," Annual Convention of the Association of Arab-American University Graduates, Chicago, IL, November 1985. "Israel: The Political Economy of a Garrison State and its Future," Annual Symposium, Georgetown University Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, April 1985. "State Formation, 'Socialism' and the Working Class in Egypt and Algeria," Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association, San Francisco, CA, November 1984. "Islamic Responses to the Penetration of Capitalism in the Middle East," Annual Symposium, Georgetown University Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, April 1983. "The Post-War Communist Movement in Egypt: Notes Toward a Preliminary Assessment," Annual Meeting of the American Research Center in Egypt, Ann Arbor, MI, April 1983. "Nationalism, Marxism and the Shubra al-Khayma Textile Workers," Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association, Seattle, WA, November 1981. SELECTED INVITED LECTURES "The Cultural and Political Debate over U.S. Middle East Policy," al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, Cairo, Dec. 27, 2003. "The Bush Doctrine and the Failure of U.S. Policy in Iraq," American University in Cairo, Dec. 16, 2003; Commonwealth Club, Feb. 11, 2004. "Scholars, Neo-Conservative Pundits, and U.S. Middle East Policy," Indiana University, April 28, 2003 "On Orientalism, 25 Years Later," University of Pennsylvania ö Mar. 31, 2003 " The Rise and Decline of the Left Nationalist/Marxist Historical Paradigm in the Arab Middle East," American University in Cairo, Dec. 18, 2002 "Why the United States Supports Israel in the Arab-Israeli Conflict," American University in Cairo, Dec. 18, 2002 "Israeli-Palestinian Peace ö What's Iraq got to do with it?" Pomona College, October 31, 2002 "Why the Oslo ÎPeace Process' Failed," University of Arkansas, March 11, 2002; Duke University, September 18, 2002 "Israel and Palestine: The Search for Justice and Security," University of California, Santa Cruz, January 28, 2002 "Behind the Headlines: Historical Scope of American Involvement in the Middle East and West Asia," Oregon State University, Oct. 28, 2001 "What Happened to the Peace Process?" San Diego State University, Glickman-Galinson Symposium on Modern Israel, May 6, 2001 "Late Capitalist Crisis, Middle East Oil, and Political Islam," Birzeit University, March 28, 2001 "Imposed Normalization and Cultural Transgression: Cultural Politics in Egypt and Israel since the 1979 Peace Treaty," Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, March 27, 2001 "Peasants Workers, and the Pedagogical Project of Egyptian Nationalist Modernity," Tel Aviv University, March 22, 2001, University of California, Berkeley, October 11, 2001, American University of Cairo, December 16, 2002 "History and Cultural Studies: Egyptian Jews Between Two Homelands," Hebrew University of Jerusalem, March 21, 2001 "The New Intifada and the Oslo Process: What Went Wrong?" University of Oregon, November 13, 2000 "The Dispersion of Egyptian Jewry," Miller Committee Lecture, University of Illinois, March 29, 2000 "The Oslo Process and U.S. Policy in the Middle East," Hebron University, Nov. 28, 1999 "What Happened to the Oslo Process?" University of Oregon, May 8, 1999 "The Dispersion of Egyptian Jewry," University of California, Santa Cruz, May 19, 1998 "Is There a Middle East Peace Process?" Stanford Alumni Conference, Los Angeles, Mar. 20, 1998 "The Death of the Middle East Peace Process and the Threat of War with Iraq," University of California, Santa Cruz, Feb. 26, 1998 "Late Capitalism and the Reformation of the Working Class and the Peasantry in the Middle East," Brown University, Jan. 30, 1998 "The Politics of Culture in Egypt," University of Chicago, July 25, 1997 "Is There an Arab-Israeli Peace Process?" Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, Oct. 16, 1995 "Political Islam: What is it? Where is it headed? How should we view it?" Hiram College, Oct. 30, 1995 "Marxism and Modernity in the Middle East," Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Apr. 22, 1994 "The Clinton Administration and the Palestinian-Israeli Peace Process," Foreign Ministry of Egypt, Institute for Diplomatic Studies, May 25, 1993 "Exile and Identity: The Formation of the Egyptian Jewish Diaspora," Cultural Studies Forum, Tel Aviv University, Mar. 28, 1993 "The Clinton Administration and the Palestinian-Israeli Peace Process," Palestinian Centre for Peace and Democracy, Feb. 6, 1993 "The Jews of Egypt, 1948-1957: Between Egyptianism and Zionism," University of Denver, Apr. 13, 1992 "Origins of the Gulf War," University of Wisconsin, Nov. 30, 1990
FILM APPEARANCES "Fear and Favor in the Newsroom," directed and produced by Randy Baker and Beth Sanders (San Francisco: distributed by California Newsreel, 1996) "ha-El she-hikhziv" [The Earth Shall Rise on New Foundations], directed and produced by Hagar Kot (Tel-Aviv, 1993) (A historical documentary on the Communist Party of Israel)
PUBLIC TALKS (mostly on Middle East current events) Alliance for Arab-Israeli Peace (Palo Alto), American Friends Service Committee (Berkeley), Association of Arab-American University Graduates (several), Bay Area Global Education Project, Bay Area Socially Responsible Professionals (San Francisco), Bayshore Rotary Club (Palo Alto), Beyond War (Palo Alto, several), Black Oak Books (Berkeley), Community United Church of Christ (San Carlos), Commonwealth Club (San Francisco), Congregation Shir Ami (Castro Valley), Concord-Lawrence Peace Pilgrimage 1989, Covenant Presbyterian Church (Palo Alto), The Fellowship Forum (Palo Alto), First Baptist Church of Palo Alto, First Presbyterian Church of Palo Alto, First Unitarian Church of San Jose, Global Education Marin, Global Options (San Francisco), Ha-Gada ha-Smalit (Tel Aviv), The Independent Institute (Oakland, CA), Institute for Labor Education (Berkeley), Intoto (Palo Alto), A Jewish Voice for Peace (San Francisco), Jewish Socialist Group (London), Kedem Congregation (Palo Alto), Ivri-Nasawi (Berkeley and Los Angeles), Kepplers's Bookstore (Menlo Park, CA), Lafayette-Orinda Presbyterian Church, La Pena Cultural Center (Berkeley), Left Forum (Jerusalem and Tel Aviv), Livermore Valley Peace Committee, Lowell High School (San Francisco), Marin Center for Peace and Justice, Mendocino Coast Jewish Community, Middle East Children's Alliance (several), Mill Valley Community Center, Middle East Peace Project (Sacramento, several), Mill valley Committee to Understand the Crisis, Montclair Presbyterian Church, Monterey Bay World Affairs Council, Morning Forum of Los Altos, Mountain View High School, National Lawyers Guild (San Francisco), New College (San Francisco), New Jewish Agenda and Ecumenical Peace Council of Santa Clara County (Presbyterian Church of Sunnyvale), Palestine Aid Society (San Francisco), Palestine Solidarity Committee (San Francisco, several), Palo Alto High School, Palo Alto Rotary Club, Peninsula Jewish Community Center (Belmont), Peninsula Peace and Justice Center (frequently), Petaluma Peace Group, Pleasanton Presbyterian Church, Princeton Alumni Club (San Francisco), Printer's Inc. Bookstore (Palo Alto), Redwood City Unitarian Church, Rotary Club (Palo Alto, Redwood City, Woodside), San Francisco Bar Association Human Rights Committee, San Francisco Chronicle editorial staff, St. Luke's Episcopal Church (Long Beach), San Jose Democratic Club, San Jose Unitarian Universalist Church, San Mateo Peace Action, Sons in Retirement (Palo Alto), Stanford Club (Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Oakland, San Francisco), Temple Emanu-El (San Francisco), U.S. Peace Council Palo Alto), West Marin Alliance, West Side Jewish Community Center (Los Angeles), World Affairs Council of Northern California
INTERVIEWS AND BROADCASTS ABC radio, al-`Alam al-Yawm , al-Ahram , Al-Ahram Weekly , Al Hamishmar (Tel Aviv), Associated Press, Australian Public Radio (several), British Broadcasting Company, Cairo Times , Chronicle of Higher Education , Cleveland Plain Dealer , CNBC Singapore, Daily Californian , Davar (Tel Aviv), In These Times , al-Ittihad (Haifa, twice), KALW radio (San Francisco), KALX radio, KALW radio, KCBS radio (CBS, San Francisco, several), KFAX radio (Fremont), KFJC radio (Los Altos Hills), KGIL radio (NBC, Los Angeles), KGIO radio (Los Angeles), KGO TV and radio (ABC, San Francisco, several), KICU TV (San Jose), KNTV (San Jose, several), KKUP radio (Cupertino, frequently), KPFA radio (Berkeley, frequently), KPFK radio (Los Angeles, frequently), KPIX TV (CBS, San Francisco), KQED radio (San Francisco, several), KRON TV (NBC, San Francisco, several), KTVU TV (Fox, Oakland, several), KUSP radio (Santa Cruz), KVEN radio (Ventura County), Marin Independent Journal , Minneapolis Star-Tribune , Minnesota Public Radio Network, National Public Radio, New York Times, Northern California Jewish Bulletin , Oakland Tribune , Pacifica Radio Network (frequently), Palestine Focus , Peninsula Times-Tribune (several), Radio France International, Radio Israel (Arabic service), Sacramento Bee , San Francisco Chronicle (several) , San Francisco Examiner (several) , San Francisco Weekly , San Jose Mercury News (several), San Mateo County Times , Sawt al-Balad , (Nazareth), Singapore Radio (twice), South African Radio Network, Tiempo (Tel Aviv), Toledo Blade (several), Village Voice, WBAI radio (New York, frequently), WBEZ radio (Chicago), WBUR radio (Boston), WCBN radio (Ann Arbor), WILL radio (Urbana), WJR radio (ABC, Detroit), WORT radio (Madison, frequently), Wisconsin public radio network, WTIX radio (New Orleans), Zu Haderekh (Tel Aviv, twice)
JOURNALISM AND ANALYSIS OF CURRENT EVENTS “Thought Control for Middle East Studies,” History News Network, March 30, 2004 http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/4374.html "Sharon's Unilateral Steps," Middle East Report Online, Dec. 31, 2003 http://www.merip.org/mero/mero123103.html "Wise Words on Deaf Ears," Index on Censorship 32 (no. 3, July 2003):51-59 "Un 'think tank' au service du Likoud," Le Monde Diplomatique , July 2003 (French, English, German, and Spanish editions) "Pro-Israel Hawks and the Second Gulf War," Middle East Report Online , April 6, 2003, http://www.merip.org/mero/mero040603.html "The Israeli Election Campaign Avoids the Issues," Middle East Report Online , Jan. 14, 2003, http://www.merip.org/mero/mero011403.html "Neo-Conservatives in the U.S. Threaten Academic Freedom," ISIM Newsletter (January 2003) "Who's Watching the Watchers?" History News Network, Sept. 30, 2002 http://hnn.us/articles/1001.html "Another Bloody Passover," AlterNet, Mar. 27, 2002 http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=12711 "An Obligation to Question Prevailing Wisdom," Los Angeles Times , Dec. 30, 2001 (syndicated) "The Reasons for Hate,"Stanford Daily , Oct. 2, 2001; Jordan Times , Oct. 23, 2001 "Late Capitalist Crisis, Middle East Oil, and Political Islam," Between the Lines 1 (no. 6, April 2001): 25-32 "Camp David II," Press Information Note #26, Middle East Research and Information Project, July 26, 2000; reprinted in Peacework , September 2000 "Israel 's Cabinet Crisis and the Political Economy of Peace," Press Information Note #23, Middle East Research and Information Project, June 19, 2000 "The Oslo Process-Back on Track?" Press Information Note #8, Middle East Research and Information Project, Oct.7, 1999; translated and reprinted in al-Safir (Beirut), Oct. 13, 1999 "Israel's New Government," Press Information Note #5, Middle East Research and Information Project, July 10, 1999 "Interpreting Israel's 1999 Election Campaign," Press Information Note #2, Middle East Research and Information Project, April 16, 1999 "The Demise of the Oslo Process," Press Information Note #1, Middle East Research and Information Project, March 11, 1999 "Don't Ignore World Opinion," Stanford Daily , March 11, 1998 "Albright's Approach Is Misguided," Stanford Daily , September 24, 1997 "What Happened to the 'Peace Process'?" Peaceworks (October 1996):1-3 "Liberated Ramallah," MERIP Newsletter (Spring 1996):3-4 "Israel, Post-Occupation," Mediterraneans no. 6 (Summer/Fall 1994):226-30 "Will There Be Peace After the Handshake?" Found Object no. 3 (Spring 1994):75-80 "Palestinian State Offers Best Chance for Lasting Peace," San Jose Mercury News , September 19, 1993 "The Clinton Administration and the Palestinian-Israeli Peace Process," (Palestinian Centre for Peace and Democracy: Published Lecture Series No. 1, February 6, 1993):1-18 "Peace, Peace, and There is No Peace," City Lights Review no. 5 (1992):222-27 "U.S.-Israeli Conflict: Is it Real?" Palestine Focus no. 49/50 (Summer 1992):5-6 "The Arab States Face the Peace Conference," Peaceworks (November 1991):8-10 "Expertise and the Media in the Gulf War," Radical Historians Newsletter no. 63-64 (May 1991):1, 9 "Origins of the Gulf War," (unedited text of a lecture at the University of Wisconsin, Nov. 30, 1990) Open Magazine Pamphlet Series , no. 3 (February 1991) "For What Reason is the United States in the Persian Gulf?" Stanford Daily , October 8, 1990 "Who Controls Oil Prices: ã Reason for War?" Peaceworks (September 1990) "America in the Gulf: Sheiks Rattle and Roll," LA Weekly (August 31-September 6, 1990) "Making Sense of the Middle East," Stanford Magazine , Part I (Spring 1986):26-31; Part II (Summer 1986):20-27 "Camp David's Leftist Opponents Win Court Victory," Guardian , June 11, 1986 (Ben Rose) "Achille Lauro Spotlights Mubarak's Many Woes," Guardian , February 5, 1986 "Israeli Strategy in the `Peace Process,'" Mideast Monitor , December 1985 "Marching Toward Civil War," MERIP Reports , no. 137 (October-December 1985):3-6 "The Cold Peace," MERIP Reports , no. 129 (January 1985):3-9 "Criticism and Defeat: Introduction to George Hawi," MERIP Reports , no. 118 (October 1983):16-18 "Sadat Foes Denounce Camp David," Guardian , April 1, 1981 (Ben Rose) "Sadat to Muzzle Press?" March 19, 1981 (Ben Rose) "Sadat's Facade is Crumbling," In These Times , February 4-10, 1981 (Ben Rose) "Sadat's Economic Plan under Fire," Guardian , January 7, 1981 (Ben Rose) "Challenge from Israel's Military," MERIP Reports , no. 92 (Nov.-Dec. 1980):6-9 "Sadat Throttles His Critics as Economy Worsens," Guardian , Oct. 29, 1980 (Ben Rose) "Sadat Consolidates Power," Guardian , May 28, 1980 (James Buxton) "Internal Opposition Shakes Sadat's Regime," Guardian , April 16, 1980 (J.B.) "New Cold War No Antidote for Spiritual Crisis," The Michigan Daily , January 31, 1980 "Egypt's Islamic Movement Grows," Guardian , January 16, 1980 (J.B.) "Sadat's Open Door: A Blind Alley," Guardian , January 9, 1980 (J.B. & Z.L.) "Menachem Begin's Inflexibility," Michigan Daily , October 24, 1978 "Likud's New Economic Policy," MERIP Reports , no. 65 (March 1978):15-19
COURSES TAUGHT AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY Lectures Introduction to Islamic Civilization The Middle East, 570-1718 The Modern Middle East The Middle East in the Twentieth Century Women in the Modern Middle East Great Britain and the Middle East (Stanford Program in Oxford) Palestine, Zionism, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict Empires and Cultures in the Modern World Conflict and Change in Western Culture The World Outside the West Colloquia and Seminars Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict Confronting Islam: The United States and the Middle East Since 1967 (freshman seminar) Franco-Arab Encounters (Stanford in Paris) The New Global Economy, Oil, and Islamic Movements in the Middle East Origins of the Iranian Revolution Origins of the Gulf War Labor and Politics in the Third World Economic and Social History of the Modern Middle East Economic and Social History of the Middle East in the Twentieth Century (Stanford in Oxford and St. Antony's College) Research Seminar in the Modern Middle East The Modern Tradition: Capitalism, Imperialism and Their Critics
PARTICIPATION IN INTERDEPARTMENTAL PROGRAMS Islamic Studies Advisory Committee, 2003- Jewish Studies, Faculty Advisory Committee, 1988- Modern Thought and Literature, Committee in Charge, 1993-99, 2000-01 Feminist Studies Program Committee, 1995-98 International Relations, Resource Faculty, 1984-97 Conflict and Change in Western Culture (Western Culture track), 1985-88
OTHER UNIVERSITY SERVICE Director of Graduate Study, Department of History, 2002- Department of History Africa search committee, 2003-04 Chair, Department of History Graduate Admissions and Fellowships Committee, 2000-02 Chair, Department of History Modern Islam Search Committee, 1998-99 Organizer, Department of History, Curriculum in Empires & Cultures Pedagogical Workshop, Sept. 14-18, 1998 Coordinator, Workshop on Empires and Cultures, 1995-97, 1999-2001, 2002-03; co-organizer, annual symposia of May 31, 1996, June 7, 1997, May 20, 2000 Department of History Graduate Admissions and Fellowships Committee, 1996-97, 1998- 99 Department of History Curriculum Committee, 1997-98 Faculty advisor, Stanford delegation to West Coast Model League of Arab States, Berkeley, CA, Mar. 26-28, 1998 Chair, Dept. of History Affirmative Action Committee, 1995-97; member, 2002-03 Resident Fellow, Potter House, 1995-99 Department of History Undergraduate Study Committee, 1990-91 University Committee on Undergraduate Studies, Subcommittee to Review General Education Requirement Area 4, 1995-96
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