Ella Shohat

Ella Shohat

Ella Habiba Shohat is an Iraqi-born Israeli-American professor of cultural studies at New York University, where she teaches in the departments of Art & Public Policy and Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies.

Movies for Ella Shohat...

Afganistan: Land in Crisis
Title: Afganistan: Land in Crisis
Character: Self
Released: May 28, 2002
Type: Movie
Produced for the "Rambo III" Special Edition DVD.
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Forget Baghdad: Jews and Arabs - The Iraqi Connection
Title: Forget Baghdad: Jews and Arabs - The Iraqi Connection
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2002
Type: Movie
A documentary film about the Mizrahim, or Jewish community of Iraq.
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Fresh Blood: A Consideration of Belonging
Title: Fresh Blood: A Consideration of Belonging
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
Fresh Blood: A Consideration of Belonging is a hybrid documentary which includes questions around Arab Jewishness, negotiating Palestine, gender, belly dancing and memory. This video essay, formed by personal narrative and including a return to Israel/Palestine, engages issues of: Jewish racialized identity, Arab/Jewish dichotomies and the way these come together in Iraqi Jewish culture, and the personal implications of the politics of Palestine and the Jewish holocaust.
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Homage by Assassination
Title: Homage by Assassination
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
A Palestinian filmmaker is writing a script in his New York apartment during the first Gulf war. As much as he tries to shut himself off from the exterior world, images of past wars in the Middle East come back to haunt him.