Ella Shohat

Ella Habiba Shohat
  • Hebrew: אלה חביבה שוחט
  • Arabic: إيلا حبيبة شوحيط
Born
Iraq
Occupations
  • Professor
  • Writer
  • Cultural theorist
Awards
  • Middle East Monitor Palestine Book Award (2017) for Memoir
Academic work
DisciplineCultural studies
InstitutionsNew York University
Main interests
  • Eurocentrism
  • Orientalism
  • Post-colonialism
  • Trans-nationalism
  • Diasporic cultures
  • Iraqi-Jewish culture
Notable worksOn the Arab Jew, Palestine and Other Displacements

Ella Habiba Shohat (Hebrew: אלה חביבה שוחט; Arabic: إيلا حبيبة شوحيط) is an Iraqi-born Israeli-American professor of cultural studies at New York University,[1] where she teaches in the departments of Art & Public Policy and Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies.[2] She has written and lectured on the topics of Eurocentrism, orientalism, post-colonialism, trans-nationalism, diasporic cultures,[2] and Iraqi-Jewish culture.[3][4]

  1. ^ "Ella Shohat – Dislocated Identities: Reflections Of An Arab-Jew : Rozenberg Quarterly". Retrieved 2024-04-04.
  2. ^ a b Shohat, Ella (2017). On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements (Paperback ed.). London: Pluto Press. p. 464. ISBN 978-0-7453-9949-2.
  3. ^ Shohat, Ella (2020). Remainders Revisited: An Exilic Journey from Hakham Sasson Khdhuri to Joseph Sassoon Semah. Amsterdam: Stichting Metropool Internationale Kunstprojecten.
  4. ^ Shohat, Ella (6 December 2016). Lost Homelands, Imaginary Returns The Exilic Literature of Iranian and Iraqi Jews. NYU press, 2016. pp. 20–58. doi:10.18574/nyu/9781479883844.003.0006. ISBN 978-1-4798-8384-4.