Egypt—Abandoned but not Forgotten
A Land Like You gives a palpable sense of a community that could not have imagined its own uprooting out of Egypt.
Author: Ella Shohat
A TMR contributing editor, Professor Ella Shohat teaches at the departments of Art & Public Policy and Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies at NYU. She is the author of many books, most recently On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements: Selected Writings (Pluto Books, 2017). Her other titles include Between the Middle East and the Americas: The Cultural Politics of Diaspora (co-edited, The Univ. of Michigan Press, 2013, Honorable Mention in the Non-Fiction Category of the 2014 Arab American Book Award, The Arab American Museum); Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation (I.B. Tauris, 2010); Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices (Duke Univ. Press, 2006); Talking Visions: Multicultural Feminism in a Transnational Age (MIT & The New Museum of Contemporary Art, 1998); Dangerous Liaisons: Gender, Nation and Postcolonial Perspectives (co-edited, Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1997). With Robert Stam she authored Unthinking Eurocentrism (winner of the Katherine Kovacs Singer Best Book Award, Routledge, 1994; Second 20th Anniversary Edition, with a new Afterward chapter, Routledge, 2014); Multiculturalism, Postcoloniality and Transnational Media (Rutgers Univ. Press, 2003); Flagging Patriotism: Crises of Narcissism and Anti-Americanism (Routledge, 2007); and Race in Translation: Culture Wars Around the Postcolonial Atlantic (NYU press, 2012).