PROFESSIONAL
ACTIVITIES And SERVICES
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Honorary Co-Chair:
Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, New York, February 2000- Present.
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External Reviewer,
Women’s Studies Department, San Francisco State University, May 1998.
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Cofounder, Ivri-Nasawi
– National Association of Sephardic Artists, Writers, and Intellectuals,
1998-Present.
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Board of Directors
and Member of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, 1998-1999.
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Steering Committee
for the First Mizrahi (Israelis of recent African & Asian origins)
Women's Conference, 1995-1996.
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Co-Founder of
the Mizrahi Feminist Forum, 1994.
EDITORIAL
POSITIONS
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Editorial Board,
Hagar: International Social Science Review, Be’er Sheva University, Israel,
March 2000-Present.
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Advisory Board,
Crossing Boundaries: New Perspectives on the Middle East, MIT Electronic
Journal of Middle East Studies, Center for International Studies, Cambridge,
MA, January 2000- Present.
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Editorial Board,
Assaph Kolnoa, Tel-Aviv University, Israel, 1999-Present.
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Editorial Committee,
Middle East Report, 1998-1999.
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Editorial Advisory
Board, Critique, 1997-Present.
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Editorial Advisory
Board, Xtext (Sydney, Australia) 1996-Present.
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Editorial board,
Jouvert: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies, electronic journal, http://english.chass.ncsu.edu/Jouvert,
1996-Present.
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Editorial board,
News From Within (Jerusalem), 1994-Present.
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Editorial board,
Public Culture, 1993-Present.
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Editorial Collective,
Social Text, 1987-1998; Editorial Committee, 1992-1995; Co-Editor (with
Bruce Robbins) 1993-1994.
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Editorial Board,
Asian Cinema Studies Society Journal, 1990-1991.
PROFESSIONAL
ASSOCIATIONS
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Modern Language
Association; American Studies Association; The Society for Cinema Studies;
Middle East Studies Association; The Columbia Seminar for Interdisciplinary
Interpretation at the Museum of Modern Art.
CONSULTANCIES
AND CURATORIAL WORK
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Advisory Board,
The Arab Film Festival, San Francisco, 1999-Present.
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Advisory Committee,
“The 44thThe Flaherty Seminar,” 1998.
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Advisory committee,
"Minorities
in Arab Cinema," The Center for Media, Culture and History, New York
University, 1996.
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Selection Committee,
Jewish Film Festival, The Jewish Museum and the Film Society at Lincoln
Center, 1996.
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Consultant, "Crossroads:
The North Africa and Middle East Film Festival" Public Theater, May
1995.
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Co-Curator, "Cultural
Identities in Transition," Film Society of Lincoln Center, April 1995.
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Board member,
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, 1989-1994; and on the advisory board,
1995-Present.
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Consultant, UN
Environmental Film Festival, 1994.
Curator and
Originator, an annual film series with panel discussions on Middle Eastern/North
African cinema, Curator of "The Cinema of Displacement: Middle Eastern
Cultures and the West," The Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern
Studies, New York University, April 1994
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