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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. Her award-winning publications include: 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). Her writing has been translated into diverse languages, including: Arabic, Hebrew, Turkish, French, Spanish, Portuguese, 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.

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+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. Her award-winning publications include: ''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).  Her writing has been translated into diverse languages, including: Arabic, Hebrew, Turkish, French, Spanish, Portuguese, 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.
-'''Ella Habiba Shohat''' is an Israeli<ref name=ReflectionByAnArabJew>{{cite web | url =http://www.bintjbeil.com/E/occupation/arab_jew.html | title =Reflections of an Arab Jew:Ella Shohat | accessdate =2007-08-18 | publisher =bintjbeil.com}}</ref> author, activist, orator and Professor of [[Cultural Studies]] and [[Women's Studies]] at [[New York University]]. She is of [[Iraqi Jewish]] descent.<ref name=ReflectionByAnArabJew>{{cite web | url =http://www.bintjbeil.com/E/occupation/arab_jew.html | title =Reflections of an Arab Jew:Ella Shohat | accessdate =2007-08-18 | publisher =bintjbeil.com}}</ref> Ella Shohat was born in [[Israel]] to a [[Baghdad|Baghdadi]] family. In the past she was an activist in a number of Mizrahi leftist movements. She currently lives in [[New York]].<ref name=EllaBio>{{cite web | url =http://www.holyfly.com/ella_shohat/englishtext.html | title =A new book by Ella Shohat | accessdate =2007-08-18 | publisher =holyfly.com}}</ref> Her work includes award-winning books and numerous anthologized essays. Her writings were translated from English into French, Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese, Turkish and German, inspiring a young generation of scholars, artists and
-political activists.<ref name=EllaBio>{{cite web | url =http://www.holyfly.com/ella_shohat/englishtext.html | title =A new book by Ella Shohat | accessdate =2007-08-18 | publisher =holyfly.com}}</ref>
+'''Books'''
-==Filmography==
+* [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).]
-* 2002 - ''[[Forget Baghdad: Jews and Arabs - The Iraqi Connection]]'' as herself
+* [http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415979221/ ''Flagging Patriotism: Crises of Narcissism and Anti-Americanism'' (New York: Routledge, 2006).]
-* 2002 - ''[[Afghanistan: Land in Crisis]]'' as herself
+* [http://www.dukeupress.edu/Catalog/ViewProduct.php?productid=3448&viewby=series&categoryid=37&sort=newest ''Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices'' (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006).]
-* 2002 - ''[[Guts and Glory]]'' as herself
+* [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).]
-==External links==
+* [http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/M/mcclintock_dangerous.html ''Dangerous Liaisons: Gender, Nation, and Postcolonial Perspectives'' (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997).]
-*[http://imdb.com/name/nm1191052/ Ella Shohat] at [[IMDB]]
+* [http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415063258/ ''Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media'' (New York: Routledge, 1994).]
-*[http://www.levantinecenter.org/center/whos-who at Levantine Cultural Center]
-*[http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/mideast/people/faculty/shohat.html Ella Details]
-*[http://www.al-bushra.org/israel/reflection.htm Reflections of an Arab Jew]
-==References==
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