About the Author

Joel Beinin is professor of Middle East history at Stanford University. His latest book is Workers and Peasants in the Modern Middle East (2001). In 2001-02 he was president of the Middle East Studies Association of North America.

Reviews

"Here for the first time is a work of scholarship which illuminates the life of Egypt's Jews, their struggle to be--or remai--Egyptian after hundreds, sometiems thousands of years in the region, and their trials in the diaspora as they redefine a complex identity. . . . Not only does "The Dispersion of Egyptian Jewrydispel many of the Orientalist myths about life in Egypt, with a particular focus on the post-war period, it builds, as its subtitle suggests, a model for valorization of the Levantine identity which Egyptian Jews typify."--"NASAWI News