Ella Habiba ShohatProfessor Ella Habiba Shohat teaches cultural studies and Middle Eastern studies at New York University. She has lectured and published extensively on issues having to do with race, gender, Eurocentrism, Orientalism, post/colonialism, transnationalism and diaspora, often transcending disciplinary and geographical boundaries. A substantial part of her work has examined theses issues in relation to the question of Arab Jews. Her books include: winner of the Katherine Singer Kovacs Award Kathrine Unthinking Eurocentrism (co-authored with Robert Stam, Routledge, 1994), Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices (Duke University Press, 2006), Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation (University of Texas Press, 1989), Talking Visions: Multicultural Feminism in a Transnational Age (MIT 1998), as well as the co-edited volumes, Dangerous Liaisons: Gender, Nation and the Postcolonial Perspectives (University of Minnesota Press, 1997), Multiculturalism, Postcoloniality and Transnational Media (Rutgers University Press, 2003), and The Cultural Politics of the Middle East in the Americas to be published by the University of Michigan Press. Flagging Patriotism: Crises of Narcissism and Anti-Americanism, in collaboration with Stam, was recently published by Routledge Press, and currently they are in the final stages of writing The Culture Wars in Translation (to be published by NYU press).