On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements

Ella Shohat is a ground-breaking cultural critic, contributing to changing the discourse on colonialism, feminism and representations of the Middle East. Teaching Cultural Studies and of Middle Eastern Studies at New York University, her writing unsettles the boundaries between the 'West and the Rest'. Among her many books are Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices (Duke University Press, 2006), Israeli Cinema (IB Tauris, 2010) and her collected writings On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements (Pluto, 2017).

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Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I: The Question of the Arab-Jew

1. Sephardim in Israel: Zionism from the Standpoint of its Jewish Victims

2. Dislocated Identities: Reflections of an Arab-Jew

3. Breaking the Silence

4. Mizrahi Feminism: The Politics of Gender, Race and Multiculturalism

5. The Invention of the Mizrahim

6. Remembering a Baghdad Elsewhere: An Emotional Cartography

Part II: Between Palestine and Israel

7. The Trouble with Hanna (with Richard Porton)

8. In Defence of Mordechai Vanunu: Nuclear Threat in the Middle East (with Yerach Gover)

9. Anomalies of the National: Representing Israel/Palestine

10. Territories of the National Imagination: Intifada Observed

11. Exile, Diaspora and Return: The Inscription of Palestine in Zionist Discourse

12. The Alphabet of Dispossession

13. On Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation

(Interview Conducted by Jadaliyya)

14. In Memory of Edward Said, the Bulletproof Intellectual

15. A Voyage to Toledo: Twenty-Five Years After the “Jews of the Orient and Palestinians” Meeting

Part III : Cultural Politics of the Middle East

16. Egypt: Cinema and Revolution

17. Gender in Hollywood’s Orient

18. The Media’s War

19. The Carthage Film Festival (with Robert Stam)

20. The Cinema of Displacement: Gender, Nation and Diaspora

21. Reflections on September 11

22. Anti-Americanism: The Middle East (A Conversation with Rashid Khalidi)

23. Postscript to Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth

24. On the Margins of Middle Eastern Studies: Situating Said’s Orientalism

Part IV: Muslims, Jews and Diasporic Readings

25. Rethinking Jews and Muslims: Quincentennial Reflections

26. 'Coming to America': Reflections on Hair and Memory Loss

27. Diasporic Thinking: Between Babel and Babylon (A Conversation Conducted by Christian Höller)

28. Arab-Jews, Diasporas and Multicultural Feminism (A Conversation Conducted by Evelyn Alsultany)

29. Forget Baghdad: Arabs and Jews – the Iraqi Connection (A Conversation Conducted by Rasha Salti and Layla Al-Zubaidi)

30. Bodies and Borders (An Interview Conducted by Manuela Boatc and Sérgio Costa)

31. Don’t Choke on History: Reflections on Dar al Sulh, Dubai, 2013 (A Joint Conversation with Michael Rakowitz and Regine Basha)

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