Ella Shohat
Biography: 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.
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Homage by Assassination
1992-01-01
Homage by Assassination
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Forget Baghdad: Jews and Arabs - The Iraqi Connection
2002-01-01
Forget Baghdad: Jews and Arabs - The Iraqi Connection
Overview: A documentary film about the Mizrahim, or Jewish community of Iraq.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Afganistan: Land in Crisis
2002-05-28
Afganistan: Land in Crisis
Overview: Produced for the "Rambo III" Special Edition DVD.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-28
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Fresh Blood: A Consideration of Belonging
1996-01-01
Fresh Blood: A Consideration of Belonging
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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