Long Reads: Joel Beinin on Ten Years of Arab Uprisings and Labor Struggles

Long Reads is a new Jacobin podcast looking in-depth at political topics and thinkers, both contemporary and historical, with the magazine’s longform writers. Hosted by Features Editor Daniel Finn.

The guest today is Joel Beinin, an American historian who has written extensively on the history of left-wing movements in countries like Egypt, Israel, and Tunisia.

Read Beinin's latest articles:

"Arab Workers and the Struggle for Democracy" from May 2020.

"Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser Was a Towering Figure Who Left an Ambiguous Legacy" from September 2020.

Produced by Conor Gillies, music by Knxwledge.