Joel Beinin is Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History
and professor of Middle East history at Stanford University.
He has been director of Middle East Studies and professor
of history at the American University in Cairo, and
president of the Middle East Studies Association of North
America.
The continued protests in Tahrir Square and Rothschild Boulevard over the summer
of 2011 suggested that the demonstrators shared something in common, normally
obscured by the Arab-Israeli conflict