ORIENTALIST GENEALOGIES: THE SPLIT ARAB/JEW FIGURE REVISITED

Ella Shohat
Professor of Cultural Studies at New York University

Moderation
Bashir Bashir, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Ella Habiba Shohat, Professor of Cultural Studies at New York University. Her work focuses on issues such as Eurocentrism, Orientalism, postcolonial and transnational approaches to Cultural Studies. Since the 1980s she has developed critical approaches to the study of Mizrahi Jews in the context of Israel and Palestine. Born into a Baghdadi family, Ella Shohat defines herself as an Arab-Jew.