Ella Shohat

Ella Shohat is a professor, author and lecturer who currently works at the departments of Art & Public Policy and Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies at New York University. Her studies generally deal with post/colonial and transnational approaches to Cultural studies.

Publications

Books

  • 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]
  • Talking Visions: Multicultural Feminism in a Transnational Age. (MIT & The New Museum of Contemporary Art, 1998).[8]
  • 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.[9]
  • 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.[10]

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.[11]
  • “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.[12]
  • “A Voyage to Toledo: 25 Years After the ‘Jews of the Orient and Palestinians’ Meeting,” Jadaliyya, Sept. 30, 2014. [13]
  • “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.[14]
  • “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).[15]
  • "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

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.[16]
  • 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."[17]

References

  1. https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745399492/on-the-arab-jew-palestine-and-other-displacements/
  2. https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/O/bo26304220.html
  3. https://www.press.umich.edu/143813/between_the_middle_east_and_the_americas
  4. https://nyupress.org/books/9780814798379/
  5. https://www.routledge.com/Flagging-Patriotism-Crises-of-Narcissism-and-Anti-Americanism/Shohat-Stam/p/book/9780415979221
  6. https://www.dukeupress.edu/taboo-memories-diasporic-voices
  7. https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/multiculturalism-postcoloniality-and-transnational-media/9780813532356
  8. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/talking-visions
  9. https://www.routledge.com/Unthinking-Eurocentrism-Multiculturalism-and-the-Media-2nd-Edition/Shohat-Stam/p/book/9780415538619
  10. "Israeli Cinema: East / West and the Politics of Representation". 2012-03-25. Archived from the original on 2012-03-25. Retrieved 2020-01-09.
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. جدلية, Jadaliyya-. "A Voyage to Toledo: Twenty-Five Years After the 'Jews of the Orient and Palestinians' Meeting". Jadaliyya - جدلية. Retrieved 2020-01-09.
  14. 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
  15. https://www.arabfilm.com/item/265/ See also: FORGET BAGHDAD - Official Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7eyiHpIBnk
  16. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L25WlRh6OlI
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