...Nada Elia Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices , Shohat Ella . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2006 . Pp. xxi, 406 . ISBN 978-08223-3771-1 . Copyright © 2009 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2009 88 ./ JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES 5:2...

...Danya Al-Saleh On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements: Selected Writings . Ella Shohat . London : Pluto , 2017 . xv + 464 pages. isbn 9780745399508 (cloth), 9780745399492 (paper). Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2019 Ella...

..., this book makes for engrossing reading and provides an outstanding and much needed con- tribution to women’s studies, ethnic studies, American cultural studies, and political studies, as well as Arab American studies. Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices Ella Shohat...

..., interpretation, and frequent misrepresentation of Said’s thoughts, as his books became available in Hebrew. Zionist academics have misrepresented Said, Shohat explains, attributing to him the binary mindset that he shatters in his work. Others have conveniently moved “beyond Said,” she argues...

.... These stakes are the cultivation of racial divides and animus. Baldwin’s remarks are evocative of, as Ella Shohat, Orit Bashkin, Bryan Roby, and Aziza Khazzoom have shown, the reality that, in immigrating to Israel, Mizrahi Jews came to live in a state founded primarily by Ashkenazi Zionists who were...

... . The Arab Jews . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press . Shohat Ella . 1988 . “ Sephardim in Israel: Zionism from the Standpoint of Its Jewish Victims .” Social Text , nos. 19–20 : 1 – 35 . Shohat Ella . 1989 . Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation...

... the right to be different but equal within an environment of radical tolerance, in which difference—as Ella Shohat has demanded—should be admissible and celebratory, rather than elided by a hybridism that ignores specificity and power differentials (Shohat 1992 , 110–11). My readings of two novels...

... education, a rethinking of the work- ings of power and strategies of resistance in both grassroots movements and academic institutions. Finally, she calls for theorizing and practicing an anti- capitalist and democratic critique in education, and through collective strug- gles (10). Ella Shohat (1998...

... transnationalisms from below. Transnationalism has been defined differently by different scholars. While some use the term to refer simply to analysis and relations across nation-state borders, Ella Shohat proposes that the advantage of a trans- national framework would be a “relational approach...

..., 10). Ella Shohat (1998, 52) in Talking Visions: Multicultural Feminism in a Transnational Age suggests we try to practice multicultural feminisms, “not in the simple additive sense of many histories and geographies, but as a political and cultural project which mobilizes...

... (Lavie 2007). Official Israeli terminology endows them with the appellation Kehilot Ashkenaz (Ashkenazi communities) (Ducker 2005, Lavie 1992, Shohat 1988).3 Most Mizrahim vehemently reject the identity descriptor “Arab Jews,” desig- nated for them by diasporic anti-Zionist Mizrahi intellectuals...

... . La mémoire de l’autre . Paris : Stock . Sezgin Paméla Dorn . 2005 . “ Jewish Women in the Ottoman Empire .” In Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewry: From the Golden Age of Spain to Modern Times , edited by Zohar Zion , 216 – 37 . New York : New York University Press . Shohat Ella...

... al. 2008) due to consanguineous marriage. Th ough less prevalent than ideal- ized (Herzog and Yahia-Younis 2007), consanguinity occurs in approximately 40% of non-Jewish marriages in Israel (Jaber, Halpern, and Shohat 2000). 6. It is important to note that in a highly privatized healthcare...

... of feminist, performance, and postcolonial studies have critically examined the othering of Arab womanhood through the belly dance (Shay and Sellers-Young 2003; Dox 2006; Shohat 2006; Jarmakani 2008; Maira 2008). Th is line of inquiry reveals that the dance—once used to confi rm the rigid, turn...

... Muslim, Hindu, or pagan women from their “repressive” societies, using the famous phrase “white men saving brown women from brown men.” The trope of the white “savior” simultaneously creates what Ella Shohat and Robert Stam (1994) have called the “rape and rescue” fantasy with regard to racialized Third...

... attributes this gap partly to the contested nature of the terms colonial and postcolonial when it comes to the Palestinian context. Joseph Massad ( 2000 ) and Ella Shohat ( 2006 ), for example, claim that describing Palestine as postcolonial might blur the fact that Palestine is still under colonial rule...

..., at least (Wed- ding in Galilee), a considerable amount has been written (Bardenstein 2005, 108–10; Kennedy 2006; Layoun 2001, 147–62; Nafi cy 2001, 167–9; Gertz 2002, 175–81; Shohat and Stam 1994, 276–9). What has not been studied, and certainly deserves to be, is the way in which these fi...

... intifada, she observes that “sacrifi cial and activist maternal sentiment and practice, held by Palestinians to occur naturally,” have been “transformed in moments of intense and prolonged confl ict” (1997, 103). 23. See Ella Shohat’s critique of area studies (2002...

... Margaret L. and Tucker Judith E. , 89 – 139 . Boulder, CO : Westview . Franco Jean . 1997 . “ The Nation as Imagined Community .” In Dangerous Liaisons: Gender, Nation, and Postcolonial Perspectives , edited by McClintock Anne , Mufti Aamir , and Shohat Ella , 130...

...):533-57. McClintock, Anne 1997 “No Longer in a Future Heaven”: Gender, Race and Nationalism. In Dangerous Liaisons: Gender, Nation, and Postcolonial Perspectives. Anne McClintock, Aamir Muft i, and Ella Shohat, eds. Pp. 89-112. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota...