Why Oct. 7 Didn't Change Everything: Gaza Talk w/ Joel Benin PhD, Emeritus Stanford

GAZA: Why October 7 Didn't Change Everything

Join a talk examining how the Palestinian people will have been living under illegal Israeli occupation for fifty-seven years.

Speaker: Joel Beinin, Ph.D., Middle East historian, Professor Emeritus Stanford University

Sep 21, 2024 at 2:00 PM

Please join us after the talk for a social reception with light refreshments

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There can be no way to know what the situation may be when this talk takes place, but there is one fact that will not be changed, regardless of the status: The Palestinian people will have been living under illegal Israeli occupation for fifty-seven years.

Peninsula Peace and Justice Center is honored to welcome renowned Middle East historian Prof. Joel Beinin for his first in-person talk for us since his retirement.

Joel Beinin is the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and Professor of Middle East History, Emeritus at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1982 before coming to Stanford in 1983. From 2006 to 2008 he served as 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 on US policy in the Middle East. He has written or edited twelve books, most recently A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa (Stanford University Press, 2020).

His articles have been published in leading scholarly journals in English and French as well as South Atlantic Quarterly, Socialist Register, Carnegie Papers, The Nation, Le Monde Diplomatique, Middle East Report, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. He has been interviewed on Al-Jazeera TV, BBC radio, Sky TV, Radio France International, Australian and US National Public Radio, and many other TV and radio programs throughout the world as well by the global print media.

Prof. Beinin was a guest on PPJC’s Other Voices Online webinar last Fall, two weeks after the Hamas attack on Israel and the resulting all-out assault on Gaza by Israel. You can see the video of his appearance here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwn890gAGI4

Prof. Beinin was raised as a Zionist in an American Jewish family, but he gradually became disenchanted with his early ideals. He returned to the United States in 1973, and took his M.A. from Harvard University in 1974, and, after working in auto plants in Detroit, obtained his A.M.L.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1978 and 1982. Beinin is a Professor Emeritus of Stanford University. Beinin has written four books and co-edited three others and published many scholarly articles (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Beinin).