Ella Shohat

Ella Shohat

Scholar · b. 1959

Mizrahi · EstablishedIsrael & the Diaspora Today

Scholar of Iraqi Jewish family whose writing on Mizrahi identity and Arab-Jewish culture reshaped the study of Israeli society and film. She teaches at New York University.

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