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Ella Shohat Quotes

born 1959 Israel

Ella Habiba Shohat is an author and professor of Cultural Studies at New York University.

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While the celebrations of Columbus' "discovery" have provoked lively opposition, the Eurocentric framing of the "other 1492" has been little questioned.

Rethinking Jews and Muslims: Quincentennial Reflections (1992)

Zionism, to my mind, can be described as an effort to whiten the Jew philosophically and even literally.

with jadaliyya (2013)

For Middle Easterners, the operating distinction had always been “Muslim,” “Jew” and “Christian,” not Arab versus Jew. The assumption was that “Arabness” referred to a common shared culture and language, albeit with religious differences.

Reflections of an Arab Jew (1991)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ella Shohat (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.