Ella Shohat

Ella Habiba Shohat
Native name אלה חביבה שוחט
إيلا حبيبة شوحيط
Residence New York
Citizenship American
Scientific career
Institutions New York University, City University of New York

Ella Habiba Shohat (Hebrew: אלה חביבה שוחט; Arabic: إيلا حبيبة شوحيط; born 1959) is an American cultural-studies academic. She is a Mizrahi/Arab Jew from a Baghdadi family.[1] Her main research interests are post-colonialism and representation in the Middle East. She has written extensively on the idea of the Arab Jew, and recently on the question of Judeo Arabic.[2]

Academic career

Shohat has worked at City University of New York[3] and New York University where she is now professor of cultural studies.[4]

Teaching cultural studies and Middle Eastern studies at New York University, she has lectured and written on issues having to do with Orientalism, Eurocentrism, post-colonial and transnational approaches to cultural studies, on the Arab Jew, Palestine, and other diasporic displacements. Shohat’s work on the Middle East has spanned several decades, since the 1980s. Her main research interests are: Arab Jews and Memory; Representation of Palestine and Israel; Hebrew Mizrahi literature and cinema; Iraqi culture; Arab-American and Arab diasporic studies; media/cultural studies; visual culture; gender studies; transnationalism; postcolonial studies.

Her writing has been translated into diverse languages, including: French, Hebrew, Arabic, Portuguese, Spanish, German, Italian, Polish, and Turkish.

She has also served on the editorial board of several journals, including: Social Text; Critique: Critical Middle Eastern Studies; Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism; and Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. She is a recipient of such fellowships as Rockefeller Foundation, Fulbright Lectureship / Research, and the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University, where she also taught at School of Criticism and Theory.

Selected works

Books

  • 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.[7]
  • Race in Translation: Culture Wars around the Postcolonial Atlantic (coauthored with R. Stam), New York University Press, 2012.[8]
  • Flagging Patriotism: Crises of Narcissism and Anti-Americanism (co-authored with Robert Stam).[9]
  • Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices (Duke University Press, 2006).[10]
  • Multiculturalism, Postcoloniality and Transnational Media (coedited, Rutgers Univ. Press, 2003).[11]
  • Talking Visions: Multicultural Feminism in a Transnational Age. (MIT & The New Museum of Contemporary Art, 1998).[12]
  • 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.[13]

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, Moments of Silence: Authenticity in the Cultural Expressions of the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988), Arta Khakpour, Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami, and Shouleh Vatanabadi, eds. New York University Press, 2016, pp. 20-58. [14]
  • “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. [15]
  • “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. [16]
  • “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 (anthologized)
  • “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) p. 8. (anthologized, translated, and republished, including on numerous websites. Segments from Ella Shohat’s essay are included in Elia Suleiman's New York-based film Homage by Assassination (1992).[17]
  • "Sephardim in Israel: Zionism from the standpoint of its Jewish victims." Social Text 19/20 (1988): 1-35.

Film Participation and advising

  • 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.[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. ↑ Shohat, Ella. On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements: Selected Writings of Ella Shohat. London, Pluto Press, 2017. https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745399492/on-the-arab-jew-palestine-and-other-displacements/
  2. ↑ The Question of Judeo-Arabic, Arab Studies Journal (Opening Essay) (2015), 14-76 <https://www.academia.edu/34542383/The_Question_of_Judeo-Arabic>
  3. ↑ "Reflections of an Arab Jew - Ella Shohat". academia.edu. Retrieved 20 September 2017.
  4. ↑ "Shohat, Ella". New York University. Retrieved 25 March 2016.
  5. ↑ https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745399492/on-the-arab-jew-palestine-and-other-displacements/
  6. ↑ https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/O/bo26304220.html
  7. ↑ https://www.press.umich.edu/143813/between_the_middle_east_and_the_americas
  8. ↑ https://nyupress.org/books/9780814798379/
  9. ↑ https://www.routledge.com/Flagging-Patriotism-Crises-of-Narcissism-and-Anti-Americanism/Shohat-Stam/p/book/9780415979221
  10. ↑ https://www.dukeupress.edu/taboo-memories-diasporic-voices
  11. ↑ https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/multiculturalism-postcoloniality-and-transnational-media/9780813532356
  12. ↑ https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/talking-visions
  13. ↑ https://www.routledge.com/Unthinking-Eurocentrism-Multiculturalism-and-the-Media-2nd-Edition/Shohat-Stam/p/book/9780415538619
  14. ↑ https://www.academia.edu/34732765/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_edited_by_Arta_Khakpour_Mohammad_Mehdi_Khorrami_and_Shouleh_Vatanabadi._New_York_NYU_Press_2016
  15. ↑ https://www.academia.edu/34729161/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
  16. ↑ https://www.academia.edu/34729190/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
  17. ↑ [https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7fZyxMh9kYUTE1EZ2J3RXVtaGs/edit.
  18. ↑ https://www.arabfilm.com/item/265/ See also: FORGET BAGHDAD - Official Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7eyiHpIBnk
  19. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L25WlRh6OlI
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