Ella Shohat

Ella Shohat (Hebrew: אלה חביבה שוחט; Arabic: إيلا حبيبة شوحيط) is a professor of cultural studies at New York University, where she teaches in the departments of Art & Public Policy and Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies.

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. Winner of the Middle East Monitor Palestine Book Award).
• 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.
• Race in Translation: Culture Wars around the Postcolonial Atlantic (coauthored with R. Stam), New York University Press, 2012.
• Flagging Patriotism: Crises of Narcissism and Anti-Americanism (co-authored with Robert Stam).
• 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).
• Multiculturalism, Postcoloniality and Transnational Media (coedited, Rutgers Univ. Press, 2003).
• Zikhronot Asurim (Hebrew, Forbidden Reminiscences, Bimat Kedem LeSifrut with the Alternative Information Center, 2001).
• 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 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 pp.) London: Routledge, 2014. Katherine Kovacs Singer Best Film Book Award for 1994.
• Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation (Univ. of Texas Press, 1989), 20th Anniversary Edition with a New Postscript Chapter, London, I.B. Tauris, 2010.

Articles

• “The Invention of Judeo-Arabic,” Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Routledge, Vol. 19, Issue 2, 2017, pp. 153–200.
• “Lost Homelands, Imaginary Returns: The Exilic Literature of Iranian and Iraqi Jews,” 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, pp. 20-58.
• “The Question of Judeo-Arabic(s): Itineraries of Belonging,” Languages of Modern Jewish Cultures: Comparative Perspectives, Joshua Miller and Anita Norich, eds. University of Michigan Press, 2016, pp. 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.
• “A Voyage to Toledo: 25 Years After the ‘Jews of the Orient and Palestinians’ Meeting,” Jadaliyya, Sept. 30, 2014.
• “The Question of Judeo-Arabic,” Opening Essay, Arab Studies Journal, 23:1 (Fall 2015), pp 14-76.
• 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.
• “Transnationalizing Comparison: The Uses and Abuses of Cross-Cultural Analogy” (with R. Stam), Special focus, “Comparison,” New Literary History, 40: 3 (Summer 2009), pp. 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, no. 3 (Spring 2004), pp. 55-75.
• "Notes on the" Post-Colonial"." Social text 31/32 (1992): 99-113.
• 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).
• "Sephardim in Israel: Zionism from the standpoint of its Jewish victims." Social Text 19/20 (1988): 1-35.

Edited special issues

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

External links

• 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.