Joel Beinin is the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History, Emeritus at Stanford University. He taught at Stanford from 1983 to 2019 with a hiatus as Director of Middle East Studies and Professor of History at the American University in Cairo in 2006-08. In 2002 he served as president of the Middle East Studies Association of North America. He has written or edited twelve books, among them: A Critical Political Economy of the Modern Middle East (Stanford University Press, 2021), co-edited with Bassam Haddad and Sherene Seikaly