On Friday, August 22, 2014, One Land Many Voices welcomes
Stanford University Professor Joel Beinin and USCLA Professor Sandy Tolan to
discuss the situation in Gaza since Israel began its bombardment and invasion
of the occupied Palestinian enclave on July 7th, and the University
of Illinois Urbana Champagne’s decision to rescind its offer of a tenured
position for Palestinian-American Professor Steven Salaita following Salaita’s
tweets against the bombing campaign.
Joel Beinin [photo on left] is the Donald J. McLachlan Professor
of History and Professor of Middle East History at Stanford
University. He received his Ph.D. from the
University of Michigan in 1982 before coming to teach at Stanford in
1983. In 2002 he served as president of the Middle
East Studies Association of North America. From 2006 to 2008 he
served as Director of Middle East Studies and Professor of History at
the American University in Cairo. 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 ten books, most recently Social
Movements, Mobilization, and Contestation in the Middle East and
North Africa, 2nd edition (Stanford University Press,
2013), co-edited with Frédéric Vairel and The Struggle
for Worker Rights in Egypt (Solidarity Center, 2010).
Sandy
Tolan [photo on right] is a journalist, teacher, and documentary radio
producer.
He is associate professor at the Annenberg School for Communication and
Journalism at USC. Over his career in journalism, he has reported from
more than 30 countries, including the Middle East, Latin America, the Balkans
and Eastern Europe, and has produced dozens of documentaries for National Public
Radio and Public Radio International.
His writing has appeared in more than 40 newspapers and magazines,
including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Christian Science
Monitor, USA Today, and The Nation.
Sandy is also author of the critically acclaimed,
The Lemon Tree, a true story about the four decade long relationship between a
dispossessed Palestinian man and an Israeli Jewish woman who came to live in
his confiscated family home. His latest
book, Children of the Stone, is forthcoming from Bloomsbury in 2015.