Ella Shohat

Ella Habiba Shohat
Occupations
  • Professor
  • Writer
  • Cultural theorist
Awards
  • Middle East Monitor Palestine Book Award (2017) for Memoir
Academic work
DisciplineCultural studies
InstitutionsNew York University
Main interests
  • Eurocentrism
  • Orientalism
  • Post-colonialism
  • Trans-nationalism
  • Diasporic cultures
  • Iraqi-Jewish culture
Notable worksOn the Arab Jew, Palestine and Other Displacements

Ella Habiba Shohat is an American professor of cultural studies at New York University. She has written and lectured on the topics of Eurocentrism, orientalism, post-colonialism, trans-nationalism, diasporic cultures, and Iraqi-Jewish culture.