Ella Shohat

Professor of Cultural Studies at New York University. Since the 1980s, her work has shaped critical approaches to the study of Arab-Jews. Her books include: On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements: Selected Writing, Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation and Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices.

Seventy Years since the Departure of Iraqi Jews Ella Shohat · October 2020 Seven decades after their massive exodus, the narrative about the departure of Iraqi Jews is hardly settled, not even within the displaced community itself. A continuous millennial existence in Mesopotamia was rendered impossible in the wake of a historical vortex generated by overpowering (...)