| Intro | American academic |
| Is | Scientist |
| From | United States of America |
| Type | Science |
| Gender | female |
| Birth | 1959 |
| Age: | 61 years |
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 and New York University where she is now professor of cultural studies.
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.