Ella Shohat

**Ella Habiba Shohat** bụ prọfesọ America nke ọmụmụ ọdịbendị  na Mahadum New York .  O dere ma kụzie ihe gbasara Eurocentrism, orientalism, post-colonialism, trans-nationalism, diasporic cultures, na Iraqi-Jewish culture.

## Ihe ndị mere n'oge gara aga

### Aha ndị Arab na ndị Juu
Nne na nna Shohat bụ Ndị Juu Iraq bụ ndị a chụpụrụ gaa Israel n'afọ ndị 1950 wee kwaga United States.  Ọ kọwara onwe ya dị ka "Arab-Jew" n'ihe gbasara njirimara ya (lee Mizrahi Jews).  Ụfọdụ n'ime ihe odide Shohat na-ekwu maka njirimara Arab-Jewish n'ime esemokwu Arab-Israel. Ọ kọwara oge ọ bụ nwata n'Izrel n'afọ ndị 1960 dị ka oge a na-akpọbata ụmụaka maka imepụta njirimara ọhụrụ nke ga-emegide Iraqiness, Arabness na Middle East nke nne na nna anyị. " Nne na nna ya ochie amụtaghị Hibru na nne na nna ya kwara arịrị otú "na Iraq [...] anyị bụ ndị Juu. Na Israel, anyị bụ ndị Arab". A gwara nna ya na ndị enyi ya ka ha kwụsị ikwu Arabic n'ebe ọrụ ma Shohat n'onwe ya na-echeta ozi yiri nke a na-agwa ụmụaka n'ụlọ akwụkwọ. Ọ kọwara onwe ya na ụmụ akwụkwọ ndị ọzọ dị ka "ndị na-amaghị ama nke ndị isi mgbaka [...] [onye] a tụrụ anya ka ha hichapụ [...] ihe gara aga gafee ókèala  ndị a kpọghachiri Baghdads, Cairos ma ọ bụ Rabats nke ụlọ anyị na agbata obi anyị".[who][and] Shohat chere na usoro a bụ akụkụ nke "ịdọ aka ná ntị, idozi, ime ka ọ dị mma" iji mee ka ha bụrụ "ndị Israel dị mpako".

## Ihe odide na nnabata
N'ime nyocha nke akwụkwọ akụkọ agụmakwụkwọ Biography, prọfesọ onye Juu nke Ijipt bụ́ Joyce Zonana kọwara akwụkwọ Shohat bụ́ On the Arab Jew, Palestine and Other Displacements dị ka "ọrụ miri emi" na "ntinye aka ọhụụ na ọmụmụ omenala (ọtụtụ)" nke na-enye "ụzọ ọhụrụ bara uru nke iche echiche banyere njirimara, ndọrọ ndọrọ ọchịchị, na omenala na Middle East na karịa.". Zonana jiri Shohat tụnyere Edward Said na Frantz Fanon, bụ ndị ọ kpọrọ aha dị ka naanị ndị edemede ndị ọzọ "nnyocha ọdịbendị / ndọrọ ndọrọ ọchịchị ha gbanyere mkpọrọgwụ na ndụ ha" n'ụzọ doro anya na nke na-arụpụta ihe n'ụzọ ọrụ Shohat. Zonana gara n'ihu kwuo na Shohat "kwanyere" Said na Fanon ùgwù site na nchịkọta ihe odide a. A kọwara edemede "Sephardim in Israel: Zionism from the Standpoint of Its Jewish Victims" na "Dislocated Identities: Reflections of an Arab Jew" dị ka "canonical" na "breaking".

Akwụkwọ akụkọ *Mashriq & Mahjar* toro On the Arab Jew, Palestine and Other Displacements.  Na nyocha ahụ, Prọfesọ Jennifer L. Kelly kọwara akwụkwọ ahụ dị ka "agụ akwụkwọ achọrọ maka ndị ọkà mmụta na-arụ ọrụ na njikọ nke ọmụmụ ndị gbara ọsọ ndụ, ọmụmụ ihe ndị na-achị ala, na ọmụmụ ụmụ nwanyị".  Kelly kwuru na Shohat "na-akọwapụta ihe yiri nke dị n'etiti ndị Arab-Juu ndị a chụpụrụ na ndị Palestine a chụpụrụ na ntọala nke mba Israel na 1948" iji "tụ aka n'ọtụtụ ime ihe ike ndị na-akpali ndụ n'ihi ọrụ na ndọrọ n'agha.".

Ọkà mmụta akụkọ ihe mere eme na onye na-akwado ikike agha nke Israel bụ Ilan Pappe kpọrọ Shohat otu n'ime otu ndị ọkà mmụta a ma ama, yana Sami Shalom Chetrit, ndị "mere ọtụtụ ihe iji kpughee" "usoro nke iwepụ Arabization" nke Mizrahim tinyere mgbe ọ bịarutere na steeti ọhụrụ nke Israel.. 

On the Arab Jew, Palestine and Other Displacements bụ onye mmeri nke Middle East Monitor Palestine Book Award 2017 maka Memoir. 

Ella Shohat's work has been translated into many languages including Arabic, Hebrew, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Polish, Turkish, Italian and Japanese.

## 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.
* *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, Arab American National Museum.
* *Race in Translation: Culture Wars around the Postcolonial Atlantic* (coauthored with R. Stam), New York University Press, 2012.
* *Flagging Patriotism: Crises of Narcissism and Anti-Americanism* (co-authored with Robert Stam).
* *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).
* *Multiculturalism, Postcoloniality and Transnational Media* (coedited, Rutgers University Press, 2003).
* *Zikhronot Asurim* (Hebrew, Forbidden Reminiscences, Bimat Kedem LeSifrut with the Alternative Information Center, 2001).
* *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 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 pages) London: Routledge, 2014. Katherine Kovacs Singer Best Film Book Award for 1994.
* *Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation* (University of Texas Press, 1989), 20th Anniversary Edition with a New Postscript Chapter, London, I.B. Tauris, 2010.

### Articles

* "Disorienting Cleopatra: A Modern Trope of Identity" in *The Black in the Mediterranean Blue: The Anniversary Issue*, *Transition*, Number 132, 2021, pages 148-169.
* "The Invention of Judeo-Arabic", Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Routledge, Volume 19, Issue 2, 2017, pages 153–200.
* "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 & Shouleh Vatanabadi, eds. New York University Press, 2016, pages 20–58.
* "The Question of Judeo-Arabic(s): Itineraries of Belonging", in *Languages of Modern Jewish Cultures: Comparative Perspectives*, Joshua Miller and Anita Norich, eds. University of Michigan Press, 2016, pages 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.
* "A Voyage to Toledo: 25 Years After the 'Jews of the Orient and Palestinians' Meetin", *Jadaliyya*, September 30, 2014.
* "The Question of Judeo-Arabic" Opening Essay, *[[Arab Studies Journal]]*, 23:1 (Fall 2015), pages 14-76.
* "Remembering a Baghdad Elsewhere: An Emotional Cartography", *Biography*, 37:3 (Summer 2014), pages 784-790
* "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.
* "Transnationalizing Comparison: The Uses and Abuses of Cross-Cultural Analogy" (with R. Stam), Special focus, "Comparison," *New Literary History*, 40: 3 (Summer 2009), pages 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, number 3 (Spring 2004), pages 55-75.
* "The Shaping of Mizrahi Studies: A Relational Approach", *Israel Studies Forum*, Volume 17, Number 2, (Spring 2002): pages 86-93.
* "Notes on the" Post-Colonial", *Social Text* 31/32 (1992): pages 99-113.
* "Rethinking Jews and Muslims: Quincentennial Reflections", *Middle East Report*, number 178 (1992): pages 25-29.
* "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).
* "Sephardim in Israel: Zionism from the standpoint of its Jewish victims", *Social Text*, 19/20 (1988): pages 1-35.

### Mbipụta pụrụ iche edepụtara

* "Edward Said: A Memorial Issue" (nke ya na Patrick Deer na Gyan Prakash jikọrọ aka), Social Text 87 (Summer 2006) peeji nke 1-144.
* *"Nrụrụ aka na Corporate Culture"* (nke ya na Randy Martin jikọrọ aka), Social Text 77 (Winter 2003) peeji nke 1-153
* "Palestine in a Transnational Context" (nke ya na Timothy Mitchell & Gyan Prakash jikọrọ aka dee), Social Text 75 (Summer 2003) peeji nke 1-162
* "911-A Public Emergency?" (nke ya na Brent Edwards, Stefano Harney, Randy Martin, Timothy Mitchell, Fred Moten jikọrọ aka dee), Social Text 72 (Fall 2002), peeji nke 1-199

### Ntinye aka na ihe nkiri

* Samir, Chefuo Baghdad: ndị Juu na ndị Arab - Njikọ Iraq Switzerland 2002. Ihe omuma.  (Ihe nkiri ahụ bụ onye mmeri nke Best Documentary, Swiss Film Prize; na nke Critics Week Award, Locarno International Film Festival.
* Ajụjụ ọnụ maka DVD Documentaries na Rambo III, Afghanistan: Land of Crisis and Guts and Glory, nke Laura Nix mepụtara, Artisan Home Entertainment, 2002.
* Commentary/Interviewee, Fresh Blood, Video Essay by b.h. Yael, Canada, 1996.
* Onye nyere aka na edemede na olu n'elu ọgụgụ maka ihe nkiri Elia Suleiman Homage by Assassination (28 min) 1992.

Ihe nkiri Elia Suleiman gụnyere akụkụ ole na ole site na edemede Shohat, nke e dere n'oge 1990-91 Gulf War. Shohat & Suleiman degharịrị akụkụ ndị ahụ dị ka akwụkwọ ozi sitere n'aka Ella Habiba Shohat nye enyi ya Elia Suleiman. Ka Suleiman na-anata akwụkwọ ozi ahụ, a na-anụ Shohat n'olu na-agụ site na "Reflections of an Arab-Jew.

## Edemsibia

## Njikọ mpụga

* Prọfesọ Ella Shohat, ngalaba ngalaba, Ngalaba nke Art & Public Policy, Tisch School of the Arts, Mahadum New York
* https://nyu.academia.edu/EllaShohat, Academia page.

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