Ella Shohat
| Ella Habiba Shohat | |
|---|---|
| Native name |
אלה חביבה שוחט إيلا حبيبة شوحيط |
| Born | 1959 |
| Residence | New York |
| Citizenship | American |
| Institutions | New York University, City University of New York |
| Alma mater | Bar-Ilan University, New York University |
Ella Habiba Shohat (Hebrew: אלה חביבה שוחט; Arabic: إيلا حبيبة شوحيط; born 1959) is a cultural-studies academic. Her main research interests are post-colonialism and representation in the Middle East.
Academic career
She has worked at City University of New York[1] and New York University where she is now professor of cultural studies.[2]
Selected works
- 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 2014 Arab American Book Award, The Arab American Museum.
- Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media (coauthored with R. Stam), Routledge, 2014.
- Race in Translation: Culture Wars around the Postcolonial Atlantic (coauthored with R. Stam), New York University Press, 2012.
- Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices (Duke University Press, 2006)
- Talking Visions: Multicultural Feminism in a Transnational Age. Vol. 5., MIT Press, 2001.
- "Notes on the" Post-Colonial"." Social text 31/32 (1992): 99-113.
- McClintock, Anne, Aamir Mufti, and Ella Shohat, eds. Dangerous Liaisons: Gender, Nation, and Postcolonial Perspectives. Vol. 11. University of Minnesota Press, 1997.
- "Dislocated Identities: Reflections of an Arab-Jew", Movement Research: Performance Journal #5 (Fall-Winter 1992), p. 8. Elia Suleiman's New York-based film Homage by Assassination (1992) 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."
- Shohat, Ella. "Sephardim in Israel: Zionism from the standpoint of its Jewish victims." Social Text 19/20 (1988): 1-35.
- Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation, (Univ. of Texas Press, 1989). New Edition with a new Postscript chapter, I.B. Tauris, 2010.
References
- ↑ "Reflections By An Arab Jew - Ella Shohat". bintjbeil.com. Retrieved 25 March 2016.
- ↑ "Shohat, Ella". New York University. Retrieved 25 March 2016.
External links
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