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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).[1][2]
  • 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.[3]
  • Race in Translation: Culture Wars around the Postcolonial Atlantic (coauthored with R. Stam), New York University Press, 2012.[4]
  • Flagging Patriotism: Crises of Narcissism and Anti-Americanism (co-authored with Robert Stam).[5]
  • 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).[6]
  • Multiculturalism, Postcoloniality and Transnational Media (coedited, Rutgers Univ. Press, 2003).[7]
  • Zikhronot Asurim (Hebrew, Forbidden Reminiscences, Bimat Kedem LeSifrut with the Alternative Information Center, 2001).[8]
  • Talking Visions: Multicultural Feminism in a Transnational Age. (MIT & The New Museum of Contemporary Art, 1998).[9]
  • 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.[10]
  • 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.[11]

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.[12]
  • “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.[13]
  • “A Voyage to Toledo: 25 Years After the ‘Jews of the Orient and Palestinians’ Meeting,” Jadaliyya, Sept. 30, 2014. [14]
  • “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.[15]
  • “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).[16]
  • "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.[17]
  • 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.[18]
  • 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."[19]

References

  1. ^ "On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements".
  2. ^ https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/O/bo26304220.html
  3. ^ Between the Middle East and the Americas.
  4. ^ "Race in Translation".
  5. ^ "Flagging Patriotism: Crises of Narcissism and Anti-Americanism".
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ "Book Details".
  8. ^ https://www.academia.edu/34657907/Zikhronot_Asurim_Hebrew_Forbidden_Reminiscences_Bimat_Kedem_LeSifrut_with_the_Alternative_Information_Center_pp_1_410_Hebrew_2001_Digital_Publication_El_Ray_Agency_and_Booxilla_2017_. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  9. ^ "Talking Visions | the MIT Press".
  10. ^ "Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media".
  11. ^ "Israeli Cinema: East / West and the Politics of Representation". 2012-03-25. Archived from the original on 2012-03-25. Retrieved 2020-01-09.
  12. ^ Shohat, Ella. ""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, NYU Press, 2016, pp. 20-58". Moments of Silence: Authenticity in the Cultural Expressions of the Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988.
  13. ^ Shohat, Ella. ""The Specter of the Blackamoor: Figuring Africa and the Orient" in Re-Significations: European Blackamoors, Africana Reading, Awam Amkpa, ed., Rome: Postcart SRL, 2016, pp 95-115" (Document). {{cite document}}: Cite document requires |publisher= (help); Unknown parameter |url= ignored (help)
  14. ^ جدلية, Jadaliyya-. "A Voyage to Toledo: Twenty-Five Years After the 'Jews of the Orient and Palestinians' Meeting". Jadaliyya - جدلية. Retrieved 2020-01-09.
  15. ^ Shohat, Ella. ""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, pp. 42-62" (Document). {{cite document}}: Cite document requires |publisher= (help); Unknown parameter |url= ignored (help)
  16. ^ Shohat, Ella. ""Dislocated Identities: Reflections of an Arab-Jew," (Published simultaneously in Emergences) Movement Research 5 (Fall 1991/Winter 1992), p. 8". Movement Research: Performance Journal.
  17. ^ https://www.arabfilm.com/item/265/ See also: FORGET BAGHDAD - Official Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7eyiHpIBnk
  18. ^ http://www.bhyael.ca/fresh-blood. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  19. ^ Elia Suleiman - Homage by assassination. YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-11.