2022-23 Theme: Mizrahim and the Politics of Ethnicity
Led by Co-Head Fellows Ruth Tsoffar (University of Michigan) and Ella Shohat (New York University)
Affiliation & Project Titles
- Merav Alush-Levron
Tel-Aviv University
The Politics of Self-Representation in Contemporary Israeli Cinema and Television: Mizrahim Beyond the Construction of Loss and Subjection
- Gil Anidjar
Columbia University
What's in a Frame? - Shirly Bahar
Columbia University
In Formation: Visualizing the Racialization of the Middle Eastern Jew, 1882 - 1948 - Rafael Balulu
Israel Institute of Technology
Thoughts about the Possibility Offered by the 'Metaverse' on Mizrahi History and Aesthetics - Inbal Blau (Maimon)
Ono Academic College
Mizrahi Discourse on Traditional Justice - The Cases of Ringworm Treatment and Yemeni Children in Israel - Yali Hashash
Tel-Aviv University
Mizrahi Feminism between Class, Religion, and Nationalism: A New Comparative Framework - Gal Levy
The Open University of Israel
What Kind of Diversity Are We?": Reading Mizrahi from the Occident - Liron Mor
University of California, Irvine
Intention: The Racialization of Truth and the Literality of the Other - Avner Ofrath
University of Bremen, Germany
A Language of One's Own: Writing Politically in Judeo-Arabic, c. 1860 - 1940 - Yoav Peled
Tel-Aviv University
Populist Protest: Class and Ethnicity in Mizrahi Political Behavior - Daniel Schroeter
University of Minnesota
The Global Politics of Moroccan Jewish Ethnicity During the Era of King Hassan II - Naphtaly Shem-Tov
The Open University of Israel
Contemporary Mizrahi Theater: Four Performing Mizrahi Frameworks in Israel - Ella Shohat
New York University
Language, Culture, and the Imaginary of Mizrahi Belonging: Re-membering the Arabic Past in the Hebrew Present - Ruth Tsoffar University of Michigan Reading as the Ethnic Subject: Bible, Feminism, Violence
- Erez Tzfadia Sapir College, Israel Mizrahim and the Local Politics of Ethnicity in Development Towns
