Reception
In a review for the academic journal ''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, The Arab American 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 Univ. 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 pp.) London: Routledge, 2014. Katherine Kovacs Singer Best Film Book Award for 1994. *''Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation'' (Univ. of Texas Press, 1989), 20th Anniversary Edition with a New Postscript Chapter, London, I.B. Tauris, 2010.Articles
* ''“The Invention of Judeo-Arabic,”'' Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Routledge, Vol. 19, Issue 2, 2017, pp. 153–200. *“Lost Homelands, Imaginary Returns: The Exilic Literature of Iranian and Iraqi Jews,” ''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, pp. 20–58. * ''“The Question of Judeo-Arabic(s): Itineraries of Belonging,”'' Languages of Modern Jewish Cultures: Comparative Perspectives, Joshua Miller and Anita Norich, eds. University of Michigan Press, 2016, pp. 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’ Meeting,” Jadaliyya, Sept. 30, 2014. * ''“The Question of Judeo-Arabic,”'' Opening Essay, Arab Studies Journal, 23:1 (Fall 2015), pp 14-76. * "Remembering a Baghdad Elsewhere: An Emotional Cartography", ''Biography'', 37:3 (Summer 2014), pp. 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), pp. 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, no. 3 (Spring 2004), pp. 55-75. * "Notes on the" Post-Colonial"." ''Social text'' 31/32 (1992): 99-113. * ''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): 1-35.Edited special issues
* ''“Edward Said: A Memorial Issue”'' (coedited with Patrick Deer and Gyan Prakash), ''Social Text'' 87 (Summer 2006) pp. 1–144. * ''“Corruption in Corporate Culture”'' (coedited with Randy Martin), ''Social Text'' 77 (Winter 2003) pp. 1–153 * ''“Palestine in a Transnational Context”'' (coedited with Timothy Mitchell & Gyan Prakash), ''Social Text'' 75 (Summer 2003) pp. 1–162 * ''“911-A Public Emergency?”'' (co-edited with Brent Edwards, Stefano Harney, Randy Martin, Timothy Mitchell, Fred Moten), ''Social Text'' 72 (Fall 2002), pp. 1–199Participation in films
* Samir, Forget Baghdad: Jews and Arabs – The Iraqi Connection Switzerland 2002. Documentary. (The film is the Winner of Best Documentary, Swiss Film Prize; And of the Critics Week Award, Locarno International Film Festival. *Interview for a DVD Documentaries on ''Rambo III'', ''Afghanistan: Land of Crisis'' and ''Guts and Glory,'' produced by Laura Nix, Artisan Home Entertainment, 2002. *Commentary/Interviewee, Fresh Blood, Video Essay by b.h. Yael, Canada, 1996. * Contributor to script and voice over reading for Elia Suleiman's film Homage by Assassination (28 min) 1992. Elia Suleiman's film 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."References
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