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 (https://history.stanford.edu/people/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 (https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/05/arab-spring-workers-struggle-democracy-unions)" from May 2020. "Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser Was a Towering Figure Who Left an Ambiguous Legacy (https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/09/egypt-gamal-abdel-nasser-legacy)" from September 2020.