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{{Short description|Israeli-American professor at New York University}}
Professor '''Ella Habiba Shohat''' is a Professor of Cultural Studies at New York University, and has taught, lectured and written extensively on issues having to do with [[Eurocentrism]] and [[Orientalism]], as well as with postcolonial and transnational approaches to [[Cultural Studies]]. More specifically, since the 1980s she has developed critical approaches to the study of [[Arab Jews]]/[[Mizrahim]].
{{Infobox academic
| name = Ella Habiba Shohat
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* Hebrew: אלה חביבה שוחט
* Arabic: إيلا حبيبة شوحيط
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| birth_place = [[Iraq]]
| occupation = {{flatlist|
* Professor
* Writer
* Cultural theorist
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| education =
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| discipline = Cultural studies
| workplaces = [[New York University]]
| main_interests= {{flatlist|
* Eurocentrism
* Orientalism
* Post-colonialism
* Trans-nationalism
* Diasporic cultures
* Iraqi-Jewish culture
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| notable_works = ''On the Arab Jew, Palestine and Other Displacements''
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* Middle East Monitor Palestine Book Award (2017) for Memoir
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'''Ella Habiba Shohat''' ({{Langx|he|אלה חביבה שוחט}}; {{Langx|ar|إيلا حبيبة شوحيط}}) is an Iraqi-born Israeli-American professor of cultural studies at [[New York University]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ella Shohat – Dislocated Identities: Reflections Of An Arab-Jew : Rozenberg Quarterly |url=https://rozenbergquarterly.com/ella-shohat-dislocated-identities-reflections-of-an-arab-jew/ |access-date=2024-04-04}}</ref> where she teaches in the departments of Art & Public Policy and Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Shohat |first=Ella |title=On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements |publisher=[[Pluto Press]] |year=2017 |isbn=978-0-7453-9949-2 |edition=Paperback |location=London |pages=464}}</ref> She has written and lectured on the topics of [[Eurocentrism]], [[orientalism]], [[Postcolonialism|post-colonialism]], [[Transnationalism|trans-nationalism]], [[Diaspora|diasporic cultures]],<ref name=":0" /> and [[History of the Jews in Iraq|Iraqi-Jewish culture]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Shohat |first1=Ella |title=Remainders Revisited: An Exilic Journey from Hakham Sasson Khdhuri to Joseph Sassoon Semah |date=2020 |publisher=Stichting Metropool Internationale Kunstprojecten |location=Amsterdam |url=http://www.josephsemah.nl/onfriendshipIII.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Shohat |first1=Ella |title=Lost Homelands, Imaginary Returns The Exilic Literature of Iranian and Iraqi Jews |date=6 December 2016 |pages=20–58 |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.18574/nyu/9781479883844.003.0006/pdf |publisher=NYU press, 2016|doi=10.18574/nyu/9781479883844.003.0006 |isbn=978-1-4798-8384-4}}</ref>


==Background==
Her award-winning publications include:
===Arab-Jewish identity===
''Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices'' (Duke Univ. Press, 2006), ''Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation'' (Univ. of Texas Press, 1989; New Updated Edition with a new postscript chapter, I.B. Tauris, 2010); ''Talking Visions: Multicultural Feminism in a Transnational Age'' (MIT & The New Museum of Contemporary Art, 1998); ''Dangerous Liaisons: Gender, Nation and Postcolonial Perspectives'' (co-edited, Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1997); and with Robert Stam, ''Unthinking Eurocentrism'' (Routledge, 1994); ''Multiculturalism, Postcoloniality and Transnational Media'' (Rutgers Univ. Press, 2003); ''Flagging Patriotism: Crises of Narcissism and Anti-Americanism'' (Routledge, 2007); and ''Culture Wars in Translation'' (forthcoming, NYU press, 2011). Shohat’s co-edited volume, ''The Cultural Politics of “the Middle East” in the Americas'' (forthcoming, Univ. of Michigan Press, 2011).
Shohat's parents were [[Iraqi Jews in Israel|Iraqi Jews]] who were [[Jewish exodus from the Muslim world|displaced to Israel]] in the 1950s and then moved to the United States.<ref name="Remembering-785">{{cite journal|first=Ella|last=Shohat|title=Remembering a Baghdad Elsewhere: An emotional cartography|journal=Biography|volume=37|issue=3|year=2014|page=785|doi=10.1353/bio.2014.0034 |s2cid=143258497}}</ref> She has described herself as an "[[Arab Jews|Arab-Jew]]" with regard to her identity (see [[Mizrahi Jews]]).<ref name="Remembering-785"/> Some of Shohat's writing deals with Arab-Jewish identity within the context of the [[Arab–Israeli conflict]]. She described her childhood in Israel in the 1960s as a time when children were "recruited for the making of a new identity that was to clash with our parents' Iraqiness, Arabness and Middle Easterness".<ref name="Remembering-786">{{cite journal|first=Ella|last=Shohat|title=Remembering a Baghdad Elsewhere: An emotional cartography|journal=Biography|volume=37|issue=3|year=2014|page=786|doi=10.1353/bio.2014.0034 |s2cid=143258497}}</ref> Her grandparents never learned Hebrew and her parents lamented how "in Iraq [...] we were Jews. In Israel, we are Arabs".<ref name="Remembering-786"/> Her father and his friends were told to stop speaking Arabic in the workplace and Shohat herself recalls similar messages being communicated to children at school.<ref name="Remembering-786"/> She described herself and other schoolchildren as "unknowing targets of mental colonization [...] [who] were expected to delete [...] the past across the border [and] also the transplanted Baghdads, Cairos or [[Rabat]]s of our homes and neighborhoods".<ref name="Remembering-786"/> Shohat felt that this process was part of "disciplining, corrective, normalizing machine" designed to make them "proud Israelis".<ref name="Remembering-786"/>


==Writings and reception==
Her writing has been translated into several languages, including: Arabic, Hebrew, Turkish, French, Spanish, Portuguese, [[Germans|German]], Polish, and Italian. Shohat has also served on the editorial board of several journals, including: ''Social Text''; ''Critique: Critical Middle Eastern Studies''; ''Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism''; ''Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies''; and ''Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication''. She is a recipient of such fellowships as Rockefeller and the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University, where she also taught at The School of Criticism and Theory. Recently she was awarded a Fulbright research / lectureship at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, for working on the cultural intersections between the Middle East and Latin America.
In a review for the academic journal ''Biography'', Egyptian Jewish professor Joyce Zonana described Shohat's book ''On the Arab Jew, Palestine and Other Displacements'' as a "profound work" and a "visionary contribution to (multi)cultural studies" which provides "helpful new ways of thinking about identity, politics, and culture in the Middle East and beyond".<ref name="Biog-review">{{cite journal|first=Zonana|last=Joyce|title=Review of ''On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements: Selected Writings'', by Ella Shohat|journal=[[Biography (journal)|Biography]]|volume=42|issue=2|year=2019|pages=455–459|doi=10.1353/bio.2019.0052 |s2cid=203011812}}</ref> Zonana compared Shohat to [[Edward Said]] and [[Frantz Fanon]], who she named as the only other writers whose "cultural/political analyses are so explicitly and productively rooted in their lives" in the way Shohat's work also is.<ref name="Biog-review"/> Zonana further argued that Shohat had "honoured" Said and Fanon with this collection of writings.<ref name="Biog-review"/> The essays "Sephardim in Israel: Zionism from the Standpoint of Its Jewish Victims" and "Dislocated Identities: Reflections of an Arab Jew" were described as "canonical" and "groundbreaking".<ref name="Biog-review"/>


The journal ''Mashriq & Mahjar'' also praised ''On the Arab Jew, Palestine and Other Displacements''.<ref name="Mashriq-review">{{cite journal|first=Kelly|last=Jennifer Lynn|title=ELLA SHOHAT, On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements: Selected Writings (London: Pluto Press, 2017). 464 pages. $115.00 cloth, $28.00 paper, $28.00 e-book. ISBN 9780745399508.|journal=Mashriq & Mahjar|volume=6|issue=2|year=2019|doi=10.24847/66i2019.233|doi-access=free}}</ref> In the review, Professor Jennifer L. Kelly described the book as "required reading for scholars working at the intersection of critical refugee studies, comparative colonial studies, and feminist studies".<ref name="Mashriq-review"/> Kelly noted that Shohat "constructs meaningful parallels between dislocated Arab-Jews and displaced Palestinians with the establishment of the Israeli state in 1948" in order to "point to the multiple violences that animate life in the wake of occupation and exile".<ref name="Mashriq-review"/>
'''Books'''
* [http://us.macmillan.com/israelicinema ''Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation'', (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1989; Revised Edition, London: I.B. Tauris, 2010).]
* [http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415979221/ ''Flagging Patriotism: Crises of Narcissism and Anti-Americanism'' (New York: Routledge, 2006).]
* [http://www.dukeupress.edu/Catalog/ViewProduct.php?productid=3448&viewby=series&categoryid=37&sort=newest ''Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices'' (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006).]
* [http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu/acatalog/__Multiculturalism__Postcoloniality_____1084.html ''Multiculturalism, Postcoloniality, and Transnational Media'' (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2003).]
* [http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?tid=3921&ttype=2 ''Talking Visions: Multicultural Feminism in a Transnational Age'' (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1998).]
* [http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/M/mcclintock_dangerous.html ''Dangerous Liaisons: Gender, Nation, and Postcolonial Perspectives'' (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997).]
* [http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415063258/ ''Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media'' (New York: Routledge, 1994).]


Israeli historian and activist [[Ilan Pappe]] named Shohat as one of a group of notable scholars, along with [[Sami Shalom Chetrit]], who have "done much to expose" the "invidious process of de-Arabisation" that the [[Mizrahim]] were put through when arriving in the new state of Israel.<ref>{{cite book|first=Ilan|last=Pappe|title=[[The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine]]|year=2006|publisher=[[Oneworld Publications]]|location=London|edition=Paperback|page=254}}</ref>
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''On the Arab Jew, Palestine and Other Displacements'' was the winner of the Middle East Monitor Palestine Book Award 2017 for Memoir.<ref name="Biog-review" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements |url=https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745399492/on-the-arab-jew-palestine-and-other-displacements/}}</ref>
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Ella Shohat's work has been translated into many languages including Arabic, Hebrew, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Polish, Turkish, Italian and Japanese.<ref name=":0" />
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==Publications==
===Books===
*''Colonialité et Ruptures: Écrits sur les figures juives arabes'', Essays selected and introduced by Joelle Marelli & Tal Dor, and translated into French by Marelli, Lux Éditeur, Canada, 2021.
*''On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements: Selected Writings of Ella Shohat.'' London, Pluto Press, 2017.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/O/bo26304220.html |title=On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements: Selected Writings of Ella Shohat, Shohat |website=www.press.uchicago.edu |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170519170930/http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/O/bo26304220.html |archive-date=2017-05-19}}</ref>
*''Between the Middle East and the Americas: The Cultural Politics of Diaspora'' (coedited with E. Alsultany), The University of Michigan Press, 2013. Honorable Mention in the Non-Fiction category for the Arab American Book Award, The Arab American Museum.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.press.umich.edu/143813/between_the_middle_east_and_the_americas|title=Between the Middle East and the Americas}}</ref>
*''Race in Translation: Culture Wars around the Postcolonial Atlantic'' (coauthored with R. Stam), New York University Press, 2012.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nyupress.org/books/9780814798379/|title = Race in Translation}}</ref>
*''Flagging Patriotism: Crises of Narcissism and Anti-Americanism'' (co-authored with Robert Stam).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.routledge.com/Flagging-Patriotism-Crises-of-Narcissism-and-Anti-Americanism/Shohat-Stam/p/book/9780415979221|title=Flagging Patriotism: Crises of Narcissism and Anti-Americanism}}</ref>
*''Le sionisme du point de vue de ses victimes juives: les juifs orientaux en Israel'' (first published in 1988, with a new introduction, Paris; La Fabrique Editions, 2006).
*''Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices'' (Duke University Press, 2006).<ref>Reviews of ''Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices'':
*{{Cite journal|last=McCarthy|first=Conor|date=2008|title=Review of Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices|journal=College Literature|volume=35|issue=2|pages=188–191|issn=0093-3139|jstor=25115500}}
*{{Cite journal|last=Hochberg|first=Gil Z.|date=2008|title=Review of Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices|journal=Middle East Studies Association Bulletin|volume=42|pages=205–207|issn=0026-3184|jstor=23063597}}</ref>
*''Multiculturalism, Postcoloniality and Transnational Media'' (coedited, Rutgers Univ. Press, 2003).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/multiculturalism-postcoloniality-and-transnational-media/9780813532356|title = Book Details}}</ref>
*''Zikhronot Asurim'' (Hebrew, Forbidden Reminiscences, Bimat Kedem LeSifrut with the Alternative Information Center, 2001).<ref>{{Cite book|title=Zikhronot Asurim (Hebrew, Forbidden Reminiscences), Bimat Kedem LeSifrut with the Alternative Information Center, pages 1-410 (Hebrew), 2001 (Digital Publication, el Ray Agency and Booxilla, 2017)|date=January 2001|url=https://www.academia.edu/34657907}}</ref>
*''Talking Visions: Multicultural Feminism in a Transnational Age''. (MIT & The New Museum of Contemporary Art, 1998).<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/talking-visions|title = Talking Visions &#124; the MIT Press|series = Documentary Sources in Contemporary Art|date = 6 July 1999|publisher = MIT Press|isbn = 9780262194266}}</ref>
*''Dangerous Liaisons: Gender, Nation, and Postcolonial Perspectives'' (Co-edited with [[McClintock, Anne]] & Amir Mufti), University of Minnesota Press, 1997.
*''Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media'' (coauthored with Robert Stam, 1994), 20th Anniversary 2nd Edition, with a new Afterward Chapter, "Thinking about Unthinking: Twenty Years After" (1-73 pages) London: Routledge, 2014. Katherine Kovacs Singer Best Film Book Award for 1994.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.routledge.com/Unthinking-Eurocentrism-Multiculturalism-and-the-Media-2nd-Edition/Shohat-Stam/p/book/9780415538619|title = Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media}}</ref>
*''Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation'' (University of Texas Press, 1989), 20th Anniversary Edition with a New Postscript Chapter, London, I.B. Tauris, 2010.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ibtauris.com/Books/Society%20%20social%20sciences/Politics%20%20government/Israeli%20Cinema%20East%20%20West%20and%20the%20Politics%20of%20Representation.aspx|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120325215129/http://www.ibtauris.com/Books/Society%20%20social%20sciences/Politics%20%20government/Israeli%20Cinema%20East%20%20West%20and%20the%20Politics%20of%20Representation.aspx|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-03-25|title=Israeli Cinema: East / West and the Politics of Representation|date=2012-03-25|access-date=2020-01-09}}</ref>

===Articles===
*"Disorienting Cleopatra: A Modern Trope of Identity" in ''The Black in the Mediterranean Blue: The Anniversary Issue'', ''Transition'', Number 132, 2021, pages 148-169.
*"The Invention of Judeo-Arabic", Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Routledge, Volume 19, Issue 2, 2017, pages 153–200.
*"Lost Homelands, Imaginary Returns: The Exilic Literature of Iranian and Iraqi Jews", in ''Moments of Silence: Authenticity in the Cultural Expressions of the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988)'', Arta Khakpour, Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami & Shouleh Vatanabadi, eds. New York University Press, 2016, pages 20–58.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://www.academia.edu/34732765|title = "Lost Homelands, Imaginary Returns: The Exilic Literature of Iranian and Iraqi Jews" in Moments of Silence: Authenticity in the Cultural Expressions of the Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988, Arta Khakpour, Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami and Shouleh Vatanabadim, eds., New York, New York University Press, 2016, pages 20-58.|journal = Moments of Silence: Authenticity in the Cultural Expressions of the Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988|last1 = Shohat|first1 = Ella|date = January 2016}}</ref>
*"The Question of Judeo-Arabic(s): Itineraries of Belonging", in ''Languages of Modern Jewish Cultures: Comparative Perspectives'', Joshua Miller and Anita Norich, eds. University of Michigan Press, 2016, pages 94–149.
*"The Specter of the Blackamoor: Figuring Africa and the Orient", in ''Re-Significations: European Blackamoors, Africana Reading'', edited by Awam Amkpa. Rome: Postcart SRL, 2016.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.academia.edu/34729161|title = "The Specter of the Blackamoor: Figuring Africa and the Orient" in Re-Significations: European Blackamoors, Africana Reading, Awam Amkpa, ed., Rome: Postcart SRL, 2016, pages 95-115|last1 = Shohat|first1 = Ella|date = January 2016}}</ref>
*"A Voyage to Toledo: 25 Years After the 'Jews of the Orient and Palestinians' Meetin", ''[[Jadaliyya]]'', September 30, 2014.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/31283|title=A Voyage to Toledo: Twenty-Five Years After the 'Jews of the Orient and Palestinians' Meeting|last=جدلية|first=Jadaliyya-|website=Jadaliyya - جدلية|language=en|access-date=2020-01-09}}</ref>
*"The Question of Judeo-Arabic" Opening Essay, ''[[Arab Studies Journal]]'', 23:1 (Fall 2015), pages 14-76.
*"Remembering a Baghdad Elsewhere: An Emotional Cartography", ''Biography'', 37:3 (Summer 2014), pages 784-790
*"The Sephardi-Moorish Atlantic: Between Orientalism and Occidentalism", in ''Between the Middle East and the Americas: The Cultural Politics of Diaspora'', edited by Ella Habiba Shohat and Evelyn Azeeza Alsultany. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2013.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.academia.edu/34729190|title="The Sephardi-Moorish Atlantic: Between Orientalism and Occidentalism" in Between the Middle East and the Americas: The Cultural Politics of Diaspora, Ella Habiba Shohat, Evelyn Azeeza Alsultany, eds., Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2013, pages 42-62.|last1=Shohat|first1=Ella|date=January 2013}}</ref>
*"Transnationalizing Comparison: The Uses and Abuses of Cross-Cultural Analogy" (with R. Stam), Special focus, "Comparison," ''[[New Literary History]]'', 40: 3 (Summer 2009), pages 473-499.
*"The ‘Postcolonial’ in Translation: Reading Said in Hebrew" (a special issue on Edward Said, edited by Rashid Khalidi,) ''[[Journal of Palestine Studies]]'', XXXIII, number 3 (Spring 2004), pages 55-75.
*"The Shaping of Mizrahi Studies: A Relational Approach", ''[[Israel Studies Forum]]'', Volume 17, Number 2, (Spring 2002): pages 86-93.<ref>{{cite journal|title=The Shaping of Mizrahi Studies: A Relational Approach|author=Ella Shohat|journal=Israel Studies Forum|year=2002 |volume=17|number=2|pages=86–93|jstor=41804897 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41804897}}</ref>
*"Notes on the" Post-Colonial", ''[[Social Text]]'' 31/32 (1992): pages 99-113.
*"Rethinking Jews and Muslims: Quincentennial Reflections", ''[[Middle East Report]]'', number 178 (1992): pages 25-29.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Rethinking Jews and Muslims: Quincentennial Reflections|author=Ella Shohat|journal=Middle East Report|year=1992|volume=178|issue=178 |pages=25–29|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3012984|doi=10.2307/3012984|jstor=3012984}}</ref>
*"Dislocated Identities: Reflections of an Arab Jew", Movement Research: Performance Journal # 5 (Fall Winter, 1992). Segments from Ella Shohat's essay are included in Elia Suleiman's New York-based film Homage by Assassination (1992).<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://www.academia.edu/11961837|title = "Dislocated Identities: Reflections of an Arab-Jew," (Published simultaneously in Emergences) Movement Research 5 (Fall 1991/Winter 1992), page 8|journal = Movement Research: Performance Journal|last1 = Shohat|first1 = Ella|date = January 1992}}</ref>
*"Sephardim in Israel: Zionism from the standpoint of its Jewish victims", ''[[Social Text]]'', 19/20 (1988): pages 1-35.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Sephardim in Israel: Zionism from the Standpoint of Its Jewish Victims|author=Ella Shohat|journal=Social Text|year=1988 |volume=Autumn 1988|number=19/20|pages=1–35|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/466176|doi=10.2307/466176|jstor=466176}}</ref>

===Edited special issues===
*''"Edward Said: A Memorial Issue"' (coedited with Patrick Deer and Gyan Prakash), ''Social Text'' 87 (Summer 2006) pages 1–144.
*''"Corruption in Corporate Culture"'' (coedited with Randy Martin), ''Social Text'' 77 (Winter 2003) pages 1–153
*''"Palestine in a Transnational Context"'' (coedited with Timothy Mitchell & Gyan Prakash), ''Social Text'' 75 (Summer 2003) pages 1–162
*''"911-A Public Emergency?"'' (co-edited with Brent Edwards, Stefano Harney, Randy Martin, Timothy Mitchell, Fred Moten), ''Social Text'' 72 (Fall 2002), pages 1–199

===Participation in films===
*Samir, Forget Baghdad: Jews and Arabs – The Iraqi Connection Switzerland 2002. Documentary. (The film is the Winner of Best Documentary, Swiss Film Prize; And of the Critics Week Award, Locarno International Film Festival.<ref>https://www.arabfilm.com/item/265/ See also: FORGET BAGHDAD - Official Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7eyiHpIBnk</ref>
*Interview for a DVD Documentaries on ''Rambo III'', ''Afghanistan: Land of Crisis'' and ''Guts and Glory,'' produced by Laura Nix, Artisan Home Entertainment, 2002.
*Commentary/Interviewee, Fresh Blood, Video Essay by b.h. Yael, Canada, 1996.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Fresh Blood|url=http://www.bhyael.ca/fresh-blood|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211126181341/http://www.bhyael.ca/fresh-blood |archive-date=2021-11-26}}</ref>
*Contributor to script and voice over reading for Elia Suleiman's film Homage by Assassination (28 min) 1992.
Elia Suleiman's film incorporates a few segments from Shohat's article, written during the 1990-91 Gulf War. Shohat & Suleiman rewrote the segments as a letter from Ella Habiba Shohat to her friend Elia Suleiman. As Suleiman receives the faxed letter, Shohat is heard in a voice-over reading from "Reflections of an Arab-Jew."<ref>{{cite AV media| url-status = live| archive-url = https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/L25WlRh6OlI| archive-date = 2021-12-11| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L25WlRh6OlI| title = Elia Suleiman - Homage by assassination | website=[[YouTube]]}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://tisch.nyu.edu/about/directory/app/1295710755 Professor Ella Shohat], faculty page, Department of Art & Public Policy, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
*https://nyu.academia.edu/EllaShohat, Academia page.

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Latest revision as of 06:05, 25 October 2024

Ella Habiba Shohat
  • Hebrew: אלה חביבה שוחט
  • Arabic: إيلا حبيبة شوحيط
Born
Occupations
  • Professor
  • Writer
  • Cultural theorist
Awards
  • Middle East Monitor Palestine Book Award (2017) for Memoir
Academic work
DisciplineCultural studies
InstitutionsNew York University
Main interests
  • Eurocentrism
  • Orientalism
  • Post-colonialism
  • Trans-nationalism
  • Diasporic cultures
  • Iraqi-Jewish culture
Notable worksOn the Arab Jew, Palestine and Other Displacements

Ella Habiba Shohat (Hebrew: אלה חביבה שוחט; Arabic: إيلا حبيبة شوحيط) is an Iraqi-born Israeli-American professor of cultural studies at New York University,[1] where she teaches in the departments of Art & Public Policy and Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies.[2] She has written and lectured on the topics of Eurocentrism, orientalism, post-colonialism, trans-nationalism, diasporic cultures,[2] and Iraqi-Jewish culture.[3][4]

Background

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Arab-Jewish identity

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Shohat's parents were Iraqi Jews who were displaced to Israel in the 1950s and then moved to the United States.[5] She has described herself as an "Arab-Jew" with regard to her identity (see Mizrahi Jews).[5] Some of Shohat's writing deals with Arab-Jewish identity within the context of the Arab–Israeli conflict. She described her childhood in Israel in the 1960s as a time when children were "recruited for the making of a new identity that was to clash with our parents' Iraqiness, Arabness and Middle Easterness".[6] Her grandparents never learned Hebrew and her parents lamented how "in Iraq [...] we were Jews. In Israel, we are Arabs".[6] Her father and his friends were told to stop speaking Arabic in the workplace and Shohat herself recalls similar messages being communicated to children at school.[6] She described herself and other schoolchildren as "unknowing targets of mental colonization [...] [who] were expected to delete [...] the past across the border [and] also the transplanted Baghdads, Cairos or Rabats of our homes and neighborhoods".[6] Shohat felt that this process was part of "disciplining, corrective, normalizing machine" designed to make them "proud Israelis".[6]

Writings and reception

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In a review for the academic journal Biography, Egyptian Jewish professor Joyce Zonana described Shohat's book On the Arab Jew, Palestine and Other Displacements as a "profound work" and a "visionary contribution to (multi)cultural studies" which provides "helpful new ways of thinking about identity, politics, and culture in the Middle East and beyond".[7] Zonana compared Shohat to Edward Said and Frantz Fanon, who she named as the only other writers whose "cultural/political analyses are so explicitly and productively rooted in their lives" in the way Shohat's work also is.[7] Zonana further argued that Shohat had "honoured" Said and Fanon with this collection of writings.[7] The essays "Sephardim in Israel: Zionism from the Standpoint of Its Jewish Victims" and "Dislocated Identities: Reflections of an Arab Jew" were described as "canonical" and "groundbreaking".[7]

The journal Mashriq & Mahjar also praised On the Arab Jew, Palestine and Other Displacements.[8] In the review, Professor Jennifer L. Kelly described the book as "required reading for scholars working at the intersection of critical refugee studies, comparative colonial studies, and feminist studies".[8] Kelly noted that Shohat "constructs meaningful parallels between dislocated Arab-Jews and displaced Palestinians with the establishment of the Israeli state in 1948" in order to "point to the multiple violences that animate life in the wake of occupation and exile".[8]

Israeli historian and activist Ilan Pappe named Shohat as one of a group of notable scholars, along with Sami Shalom Chetrit, who have "done much to expose" the "invidious process of de-Arabisation" that the Mizrahim were put through when arriving in the new state of Israel.[9]

On the Arab Jew, Palestine and Other Displacements was the winner of the Middle East Monitor Palestine Book Award 2017 for Memoir.[7][10]

Ella Shohat's work has been translated into many languages including Arabic, Hebrew, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Polish, Turkish, Italian and Japanese.[2]

Publications

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Books

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  • Colonialité et Ruptures: Écrits sur les figures juives arabes, Essays selected and introduced by Joelle Marelli & Tal Dor, and translated into French by Marelli, Lux Éditeur, Canada, 2021.
  • On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements: Selected Writings of Ella Shohat. London, Pluto Press, 2017.[11]
  • Between the Middle East and the Americas: The Cultural Politics of Diaspora (coedited with E. Alsultany), The University of Michigan Press, 2013. Honorable Mention in the Non-Fiction category for the Arab American Book Award, The Arab American Museum.[12]
  • Race in Translation: Culture Wars around the Postcolonial Atlantic (coauthored with R. Stam), New York University Press, 2012.[13]
  • Flagging Patriotism: Crises of Narcissism and Anti-Americanism (co-authored with Robert Stam).[14]
  • Le sionisme du point de vue de ses victimes juives: les juifs orientaux en Israel (first published in 1988, with a new introduction, Paris; La Fabrique Editions, 2006).
  • Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices (Duke University Press, 2006).[15]
  • Multiculturalism, Postcoloniality and Transnational Media (coedited, Rutgers Univ. Press, 2003).[16]
  • Zikhronot Asurim (Hebrew, Forbidden Reminiscences, Bimat Kedem LeSifrut with the Alternative Information Center, 2001).[17]
  • Talking Visions: Multicultural Feminism in a Transnational Age. (MIT & The New Museum of Contemporary Art, 1998).[18]
  • Dangerous Liaisons: Gender, Nation, and Postcolonial Perspectives (Co-edited with McClintock, Anne & Amir Mufti), University of Minnesota Press, 1997.
  • Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media (coauthored with Robert Stam, 1994), 20th Anniversary 2nd Edition, with a new Afterward Chapter, "Thinking about Unthinking: Twenty Years After" (1-73 pages) London: Routledge, 2014. Katherine Kovacs Singer Best Film Book Award for 1994.[19]
  • Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation (University of Texas Press, 1989), 20th Anniversary Edition with a New Postscript Chapter, London, I.B. Tauris, 2010.[20]

Articles

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  • "Disorienting Cleopatra: A Modern Trope of Identity" in The Black in the Mediterranean Blue: The Anniversary Issue, Transition, Number 132, 2021, pages 148-169.
  • "The Invention of Judeo-Arabic", Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Routledge, Volume 19, Issue 2, 2017, pages 153–200.
  • "Lost Homelands, Imaginary Returns: The Exilic Literature of Iranian and Iraqi Jews", in Moments of Silence: Authenticity in the Cultural Expressions of the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988), Arta Khakpour, Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami & Shouleh Vatanabadi, eds. New York University Press, 2016, pages 20–58.[21]
  • "The Question of Judeo-Arabic(s): Itineraries of Belonging", in Languages of Modern Jewish Cultures: Comparative Perspectives, Joshua Miller and Anita Norich, eds. University of Michigan Press, 2016, pages 94–149.
  • "The Specter of the Blackamoor: Figuring Africa and the Orient", in Re-Significations: European Blackamoors, Africana Reading, edited by Awam Amkpa. Rome: Postcart SRL, 2016.[22]
  • "A Voyage to Toledo: 25 Years After the 'Jews of the Orient and Palestinians' Meetin", Jadaliyya, September 30, 2014.[23]
  • "The Question of Judeo-Arabic" Opening Essay, Arab Studies Journal, 23:1 (Fall 2015), pages 14-76.
  • "Remembering a Baghdad Elsewhere: An Emotional Cartography", Biography, 37:3 (Summer 2014), pages 784-790
  • "The Sephardi-Moorish Atlantic: Between Orientalism and Occidentalism", in Between the Middle East and the Americas: The Cultural Politics of Diaspora, edited by Ella Habiba Shohat and Evelyn Azeeza Alsultany. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2013.[24]
  • "Transnationalizing Comparison: The Uses and Abuses of Cross-Cultural Analogy" (with R. Stam), Special focus, "Comparison," New Literary History, 40: 3 (Summer 2009), pages 473-499.
  • "The ‘Postcolonial’ in Translation: Reading Said in Hebrew" (a special issue on Edward Said, edited by Rashid Khalidi,) Journal of Palestine Studies, XXXIII, number 3 (Spring 2004), pages 55-75.
  • "The Shaping of Mizrahi Studies: A Relational Approach", Israel Studies Forum, Volume 17, Number 2, (Spring 2002): pages 86-93.[25]
  • "Notes on the" Post-Colonial", Social Text 31/32 (1992): pages 99-113.
  • "Rethinking Jews and Muslims: Quincentennial Reflections", Middle East Report, number 178 (1992): pages 25-29.[26]
  • "Dislocated Identities: Reflections of an Arab Jew", Movement Research: Performance Journal # 5 (Fall Winter, 1992). Segments from Ella Shohat's essay are included in Elia Suleiman's New York-based film Homage by Assassination (1992).[27]
  • "Sephardim in Israel: Zionism from the standpoint of its Jewish victims", Social Text, 19/20 (1988): pages 1-35.[28]

Edited special issues

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  • "Edward Said: A Memorial Issue"' (coedited with Patrick Deer and Gyan Prakash), Social Text 87 (Summer 2006) pages 1–144.
  • "Corruption in Corporate Culture" (coedited with Randy Martin), Social Text 77 (Winter 2003) pages 1–153
  • "Palestine in a Transnational Context" (coedited with Timothy Mitchell & Gyan Prakash), Social Text 75 (Summer 2003) pages 1–162
  • "911-A Public Emergency?" (co-edited with Brent Edwards, Stefano Harney, Randy Martin, Timothy Mitchell, Fred Moten), Social Text 72 (Fall 2002), pages 1–199

Participation in films

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  • Samir, Forget Baghdad: Jews and Arabs – The Iraqi Connection Switzerland 2002. Documentary. (The film is the Winner of Best Documentary, Swiss Film Prize; And of the Critics Week Award, Locarno International Film Festival.[29]
  • Interview for a DVD Documentaries on Rambo III, Afghanistan: Land of Crisis and Guts and Glory, produced by Laura Nix, Artisan Home Entertainment, 2002.
  • Commentary/Interviewee, Fresh Blood, Video Essay by b.h. Yael, Canada, 1996.[30]
  • Contributor to script and voice over reading for Elia Suleiman's film Homage by Assassination (28 min) 1992.

Elia Suleiman's film incorporates a few segments from Shohat's article, written during the 1990-91 Gulf War. Shohat & Suleiman rewrote the segments as a letter from Ella Habiba Shohat to her friend Elia Suleiman. As Suleiman receives the faxed letter, Shohat is heard in a voice-over reading from "Reflections of an Arab-Jew."[31]

References

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  1. ^ "Ella Shohat – Dislocated Identities: Reflections Of An Arab-Jew : Rozenberg Quarterly". Retrieved 2024-04-04.
  2. ^ a b c Shohat, Ella (2017). On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements (Paperback ed.). London: Pluto Press. p. 464. ISBN 978-0-7453-9949-2.
  3. ^ Shohat, Ella (2020). Remainders Revisited: An Exilic Journey from Hakham Sasson Khdhuri to Joseph Sassoon Semah. Amsterdam: Stichting Metropool Internationale Kunstprojecten.
  4. ^ Shohat, Ella (6 December 2016). Lost Homelands, Imaginary Returns The Exilic Literature of Iranian and Iraqi Jews. NYU press, 2016. pp. 20–58. doi:10.18574/nyu/9781479883844.003.0006. ISBN 978-1-4798-8384-4.
  5. ^ a b Shohat, Ella (2014). "Remembering a Baghdad Elsewhere: An emotional cartography". Biography. 37 (3): 785. doi:10.1353/bio.2014.0034. S2CID 143258497.
  6. ^ a b c d e Shohat, Ella (2014). "Remembering a Baghdad Elsewhere: An emotional cartography". Biography. 37 (3): 786. doi:10.1353/bio.2014.0034. S2CID 143258497.
  7. ^ a b c d e Joyce, Zonana (2019). "Review of On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements: Selected Writings, by Ella Shohat". Biography. 42 (2): 455–459. doi:10.1353/bio.2019.0052. S2CID 203011812.
  8. ^ a b c Jennifer Lynn, Kelly (2019). "ELLA SHOHAT, On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements: Selected Writings (London: Pluto Press, 2017). 464 pages. $115.00 cloth, $28.00 paper, $28.00 e-book. ISBN 9780745399508". Mashriq & Mahjar. 6 (2). doi:10.24847/66i2019.233.
  9. ^ Pappe, Ilan (2006). The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Paperback ed.). London: Oneworld Publications. p. 254.
  10. ^ "On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements".
  11. ^ "On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements: Selected Writings of Ella Shohat, Shohat". www.press.uchicago.edu. Archived from the original on 2017-05-19.
  12. ^ Between the Middle East and the Americas.
  13. ^ "Race in Translation".
  14. ^ "Flagging Patriotism: Crises of Narcissism and Anti-Americanism".
  15. ^ Reviews of Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices:
    • McCarthy, Conor (2008). "Review of Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices". College Literature. 35 (2): 188–191. ISSN 0093-3139. JSTOR 25115500.
    • Hochberg, Gil Z. (2008). "Review of Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices". Middle East Studies Association Bulletin. 42: 205–207. ISSN 0026-3184. JSTOR 23063597.
  16. ^ "Book Details".
  17. ^ Zikhronot Asurim (Hebrew, Forbidden Reminiscences), Bimat Kedem LeSifrut with the Alternative Information Center, pages 1-410 (Hebrew), 2001 (Digital Publication, el Ray Agency and Booxilla, 2017). January 2001.
  18. ^ Talking Visions | the MIT Press. Documentary Sources in Contemporary Art. MIT Press. 6 July 1999. ISBN 9780262194266.
  19. ^ "Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media".
  20. ^ "Israeli Cinema: East / West and the Politics of Representation". 2012-03-25. Archived from the original on 2012-03-25. Retrieved 2020-01-09.
  21. ^ Shohat, Ella (January 2016). ""Lost Homelands, Imaginary Returns: The Exilic Literature of Iranian and Iraqi Jews" in Moments of Silence: Authenticity in the Cultural Expressions of the Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988, Arta Khakpour, Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami and Shouleh Vatanabadim, eds., New York, New York University Press, 2016, pages 20-58". Moments of Silence: Authenticity in the Cultural Expressions of the Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988.
  22. ^ Shohat, Ella (January 2016). ""The Specter of the Blackamoor: Figuring Africa and the Orient" in Re-Significations: European Blackamoors, Africana Reading, Awam Amkpa, ed., Rome: Postcart SRL, 2016, pages 95-115".
  23. ^ جدلية, Jadaliyya-. "A Voyage to Toledo: Twenty-Five Years After the 'Jews of the Orient and Palestinians' Meeting". Jadaliyya - جدلية. Retrieved 2020-01-09.
  24. ^ Shohat, Ella (January 2013). ""The Sephardi-Moorish Atlantic: Between Orientalism and Occidentalism" in Between the Middle East and the Americas: The Cultural Politics of Diaspora, Ella Habiba Shohat, Evelyn Azeeza Alsultany, eds., Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2013, pages 42-62".
  25. ^ Ella Shohat (2002). "The Shaping of Mizrahi Studies: A Relational Approach". Israel Studies Forum. 17 (2): 86–93. JSTOR 41804897.
  26. ^ Ella Shohat (1992). "Rethinking Jews and Muslims: Quincentennial Reflections". Middle East Report. 178 (178): 25–29. doi:10.2307/3012984. JSTOR 3012984.
  27. ^ Shohat, Ella (January 1992). ""Dislocated Identities: Reflections of an Arab-Jew," (Published simultaneously in Emergences) Movement Research 5 (Fall 1991/Winter 1992), page 8". Movement Research: Performance Journal.
  28. ^ Ella Shohat (1988). "Sephardim in Israel: Zionism from the Standpoint of Its Jewish Victims". Social Text. Autumn 1988 (19/20): 1–35. doi:10.2307/466176. JSTOR 466176.
  29. ^ https://www.arabfilm.com/item/265/ See also: FORGET BAGHDAD - Official Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7eyiHpIBnk
  30. ^ "Fresh Blood". Archived from the original on 2021-11-26.
  31. ^ Elia Suleiman - Homage by assassination. YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-11.
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