Includes bibliographical references (pages 430-445) and index.
Contents:
Part I: The Question of the Arab-Jew. 1. Sephardism in Israel: Zionism from the Standpoint of its Jewish Victims -- 2. Dislocated Identities: Reflections of an Arab Jew -- 3. Breaking the Silence -- 4. Mizrahi Feminism: The Politics of Gender, Race, and Multiculturalism -- 5. The Invention of the Mizrahim -- 6. Remembering a Baghdad Elsewhere: An Emotional Cartography. Part II: Between Palestine and Israel. 7. The Trouble with Hanna (with Richard Porton) -- 8. In Defense of Mordechai Vanunu: Nuclear Threat in the Middle East (with Yerach Gover) -- 9. Anomolies of the National: Representing Israel/Palestine -- 10. Territories of the National Imagination: Intifada Observed -- 11. Exile, Diaspora, and Return: The Inscription of Palestine in Zionist Discourse -- 12. The Alphabet of Dispossession -- 13. On 'Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation' (Interview conducted by Jadaliyya) -- 14. In Memory of Edward Said, the Bulletproof Intellectual -- 15. A Voyage to Toledo: Twenty-Five Years After the "Jews of the Orient and Palestinians" Meeting. Part III: Cultural Politics of the Middle East. 16. Egypt: Cinema and Revolution -- 17. Gender in Hollywood's Orient -- 18. The Media's War -- 19. The Carthage Film Festival (with Robert Stam) -- 20. The Cinema of Displacement: Gender, Nation, and Diaspora -- 21. Reflections on September 11 -- 22. Anti-Americanism: The Middle East (A Conversation with Rashid Khalidi) -- 23. Postscript to Frantz Fanon's 'The Wretched of the Earth' -- 24. On the Margins of Middle Eastern Studies: Situating Said's 'Orientalism'. Part IV: Muslims, Jews, and Diasporic Readings. 25. Rethinking Jews and Muslims: Quincentennial Reflections -- 26. "Coming to America": Reflections on Hair and Memory Loss -- 27. Diasporic Thinking: Between Babel and Babylon (A Conversation Conducted by Christian Holler) -- 28. Arab Jews, Diasporas, and Multicultural Feminism (A Conversation Conducted by Evelyn Alsultany) -- 29. Forget Baghdad: Arabs and Jews -- the Iraqi Connection (A Conversation Conducted by Rasha Salti and Layla Al-Zubaidi) -- 30. Bodies and Borders (An Interview Conducted by Manuela Boatca and Sergio Costa) -- 31. Don't Choke on History: Reflections on Dar al Sulh, Dubai, 2013 (A Joint Conversation with Michael Rakowitz and Regine Basha).
Summary:
"Defying the binary and Eurocentric view of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Ella Shohat's work, as a whole, dares to engage the deeper historical and cultural questions swirling around colonialism, Orientalism, and nationalism. Spanning several decades, Shohat's work has introduced conceptual frameworks that have fundamentally challenged the conventional understandings of Arabs and Jews, Palestine, Zionism, and the Middle East. Collected now in a single volume, this book gathers together some of her most influential political essays, interviews, speeches, testimonies, and memoirs for the first time"-- Publisher's website.
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