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Joel Beinin and Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative (MESPI)

Joel Beinin and Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative (MESPI)

Joel Beinin is the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and Professor of Middle East History at Stanford University, Emeritus. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1982 and began teaching at Stanford in 1983. From 2006 to 2008 he was 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. Beinin’s research and writing focus on the social and cultural history and political economy of modern Egypt, Palestine, and Israel and US policy in the Middle East. He has written or edited twelve books, most recently, A Critical Political Economy of the Modern Middle East (Stanford University Press, forthcoming, 2021); co-edited with Bassam Haddad and Sherene Seikaly and Workers and Thieves: Labor Movements and Popular Uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt (Stanford University Press, 2016). 

 

MESPI is a curated interactive platform for ME studies resources specifically tailored for the needs of teachers, researchers, and students. It will be the one-stop shop for course design on the macro level, lesson planning on the micro level, and for scholarship vis-a-vis specific topics, countries, and disciplines. Contact us at info@ArabStudiesInstitute.org.


MESPI Core Team

Bassam Haddad, Co-Director
Ziad Abu-Rish, Co-Director
Nadya Sbaiti, NEWTON Coordinator
Rosie Bsheer, MESPI Editor
Mekarem Eljamal, MESPI Associate Editor
Jacob Bessen, Essential Readings Coordinator
Maddie Vagadori, MESPI Website Coordinator
Shakeela Omar, Peer-Review Articles Review Coordinator
Claire Christensen, Peer-Review Articles Review Co-Coordinator
Jonathan Adler, Essential Texts Coordinator
Willa Hart, Peer-Review Articles Review Co-Coordinator
Michael Haddad, Media Roundups Coordinator
Kylie Broderick, ASI Liaison

ARTICLES BY Joel Beinin and Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative (MESPI)