PROF. SMADAR LAVIE CV Address: P. O. Box 14597 sinaia5@netvision.net.il Tel Aviv 61144 ph. +972-52-221-1513 Israel/Palestine

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Cultural Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, 1989

M.A. Cultural Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, 1981

B.A. The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1980

Major: Sociology and Social Anthropology; Minors: Medieval Islamic Civilization, Musicology

Specializations: Cultural Studies; Borders; Race and Minority Discourse; Colonialism; Nationalism; Feminist Theory of Color; Literary Theory; Symbolism, Ritual, Performance; History of British Anthropology; the Middle East -- Egypt, Israel, Palestine.

Languages: Fluent English, Hebrew, and Arabic; semi-fluent French.

ANTHROPOLOGICAL FIELDWORK

* South Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, 1975-present

* Aqaba, Jordan (South Sinai Bedouin) 1993-95, 2006-present

* Palestine/Israel, 1988-present (with additional field research in Ann Arbor, MI (April 1991), Paris (October 1993), and Yemen (August 1996)

EMPLOYMENT

In 1999 I had to give up my University of California Professorship and flee to Israel, where my family resides, due to the now-defunct Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS). I lost all custody of my son to his father. In a precedential 2001 decision, the Israeli Supreme Court cleared me of any child abduction charges. The U.S. State Department followed course, and restored my US passport privileges. Yet as US-Israeli citizens my son and I must use our Israeli passports to travel outside Israel. Until June 2005, the Tel Aviv Family Court has refused to grant the resultant international custody orders. We therefore could not get back our Israeli passports confiscated by the Tel Aviv Family Court in 1999. Our freedom of movement was curtailed, as were my rights for gainful employment in my profession outside Israel. Israeli academic institutions do not grant FTEs to non-European women who refuse to delimit their academic freedom within the Zionist-“post”Zionist confines. Following the June 2005 court order, Israel kindly reinstituted our passports in late October 2005. As a result, we have regained our freedom of travel.

2001- present Visiting Associate Professor, the Social Science Division, Beit Berl Teacher’s College

1999/2000 Visiting Associate Professor, School of Media Studies, Sapir College of the Negev – Fall and Spring Semesters.

1994-9 Associate Professor of Anthropology and Critical Theory,, University of California at Davis.

1990-4 Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Critical Theory, University of California at Davis

1985-9 Lecturer, University of California at Berkeley, Fall Freshmen Program.

1984 Lecturer, Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, CA.

PUBLICATIONS

Books

1990 The Poetics of Military Occupation: Mzeina Allegories of Bedouin Identity Under Israeli and Egyptian Rule. Los Angeles: University of California Press.

Since its December 1990 publication, the book was reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement, Washington Post, the Village Voice Literary Supplement, Choice, the San Francisco Chronicle, Ha'aretz, and in over three dozen scholarly periodicals. A paperback edition has been available since July 1991. The book has become a required textbook in a variety of courses and disciplines across the social sciences and humanities.

1993 Creativity/Anthropology. Co-edited with Renato Rosaldo and Kirin Narayan. Cornell University Press.

1996 Displacement, Diaspora, and Geographies of Identity. Co-edited with Ted Swedenburg. Duke University Press.

Since its 1996 publication, Displacement has become an oft-quoted book and taught as a textbook throughout the Humanities and the Social Sciences. Its introduction has become a formative text for study of diasporas, borders, identity, racism, and other fields of Cultural Studies.

Articles

2006 “Operations 'Summer Rains’ and 'Adequate Pay’ — Yet Other Acts in the Mizrahi-Palestinian Tragedy.” Co-authored with Reuven Abarjel, co-founder of Israel’s Black Panthers.

The Jordan Times. 29 July. [article was published on a full double page in the Opinion section].

Article has also been e-published in the highly acclaimed The Electronic Intifada; from there, it traveled to Crosscurrents; Dissident Veterans for Peace; Occupation Magazin; Ziopedia; E-Mago (English edition); Coalition of Women for Peace; NewsZoom; Independent Media Center’s main site; Independent Media Center, Beirut; Tasbir; Iranian.com; Peninsula Peace and Justice Center; ICA News CoOp; the Baghdad-Rafah-Beirut site; Dissident Veteran for Peace; and copied into many Blogs from the Electronic Intifada site.

Article was translated to Arabic, French, Italian, Russian and Spanish.

Hebrew version e-published in Kedma: the Eastern Gate Haokets; Mahsom; E-Mago, and the Hebrew site of the Coalition of Women for Peace

2006 “Transnational English Tyranny “ Anthropology Newsletter. April Issue. P. 9-10. Article was part of a yearlong comparative series, “Anthropology on a Global Scale.”

2006 “When the Noble Savage Invades the Home” Review essay of the Hebrew translation of Works and Lives: The Anthropologist As Author by Clifford Geertz. Resling, Israel, 2005. Haaretz Literary Supplement 681 p.14. 14 March. [In Hebrew].

2005 “Parenthood, the Feminization of Poverty, and Joint Custody”Kedma: The Eastern Gate Portal . 7 November. Article also e-published in E-Mago and Bananot [In Hebrew]

2005 “Rachel Gamliel of the Ma`abari Family, My Granny.” Kedma: The Eastern Gate portal. 19 January [in Hebrew]. English translation published in Beirut Independent Media Center.

2005 “A Rainbow Kufiyya” In E. Shadmi and C. Frankfort-Nachmias, Eds., Sappho in the Holy Land: Lesbian Existence and Dilemmas in Contemporary Israel. Albany, New York: SUNY Press. [appearing under my internet nick of Mickey M.] pp. 211-222. This is an expanded and reanalyzed version of the 2001 piece (below).

2005 “Israeli Anthropology and American Anthropology” Anthropology Newsletter January Issue. P. 8.

The article was copied into many internet sites that deal with academic freedom issues within the context of the Israel/Palestine conflict.

An expanded Hebrew version, entitled “Ashkenazi Anthropologists and the Mizrahi-Palestinian Gold-Mine” has been e-published in Kedma: the Eastern Gate.

Updated version published in HaKeshet, The Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow Journal, no.2 (winter 2005) p. 13 [in Hebrew]

2004 “Vicki Shiran and the ‘Ashkenazim, from the Bunker’” Kedma: The Eastern Gate portal. Sami Shalom Chetrit, Ed. 30 May [in Hebrew].

2004 “Women and Children’s Rights in Family Courts” Co-Authored with Esther Hertzog and Rivka Nardi. In Ha`Oketz [Sting, Heb.] Portal, edited by Yossi Dahan and Itzik Saporta, 15 March [in Hebrew].

2004 “Vicky Shiran, A Farewell Letter.” In Kedma: The Eastern Portal. Re-Issued in HaDerech and many other feminist portals [in Hebrew]

2004 “Mizrahi Politics, Intellectual Property, and Luba,” In Ha`Oketz [Sting, Heb.] Portal, editec by Yossi Dahan and Itzik Saporta, 23 February [in Hebrew]

2004 “Jamaica Kincaid @ Tel Aviv U.: ‘This place looks exactly like my synagogue.” 20 January. In Palestine Independent Media Center.

2003 “Lilly White Feminism and Academic Apartheid in Israel.” Anthropology Newsletter, October Issue, pp. 10-11.

This is a different version than the 2002 oft-quoted piece below, since it focuses on the history of academic apartheid within Israeli anthropology, and supported by quantitative data charts.

2003 “Return for Your Taxes: Education, Equal Opportunities, and MultiCulturalism.” In Women’s Parliament: A Political Stage from Another Angle 2001-2 Proceedings, Esther Hertzog, Ed., pp 57-58. [in Hebrew].

2003 “Social Engineering: Diary Fragments”, Summer 2003.” Kedma: The Eastern Gate portal. 15 September [in Hebrew].

2003 “Social Engineering.” Maariv Daily Op-Ed page. Co-authored with Amir Fuchs 17 July [in Hebrew].

Can be found on the Maariv site:

2003 “But There Is Discrimination: The State Penetrates the Single Family’s Bedroom.” Globes: Israel’s Business Arena, Editorial Page, 16-17 July, p. 3. Co-Authored with Amir Fuchs [in Hebrew]. A different version of Maariv’s “Social Engineering” above.

2003 “Ideology, Welfare, and the Single-Headed Family” Co-Authored with Amir Fuchs. Kedma: The Eastern Gate Portal. 15 July [in Hebrew]. Reissued in HaDerech feminist portal and many other Hebrew portals. Reprinted in Ahoti-For Women in Israel Newsletter, No. 2, Oct. 2003, p. 5.

2003 “Right, Left, and the Everyday Crimes of State in Israel.” Published as part of “Suffering, Oppression, and Solidarity in the Feminist Movement” Kedma: The Eastern Gate Portal. Sami Shalom Chetrit, Ed. 4 May [in Hebrew].

English original version was published in the Alef e-list.

2003 “Sage Gardner Is No Longer Relevant.” Makor Rishon Weekly, Op-Ed Section. 28 March, p. 16.

2002 “Abuse in the Name of the Law: The Legal System Severely Punishes Women who Report their Husbands’ Violence.” Ha’aretz Daily Op-Ed, 27 November. P. B2 [in Hebrew].

This is an abbreviated version of the “Notes” piece below. See also here .

2002 “Notes on Deleted Dreams, Families, and the Price Tag of Justice.” Kedma: The Eastern Gate. 25 November [in Hebrew]. Re Issued in HaDerech and many other Israeli portals.

2002 “A Pedophile Father Preferable to Alienating Mother: Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) and Israel’s Supreme Court.” Psak Din [Judgement, Heb.], Israel’s most influential legal portal and judgement repository. October Issue.

This article was used as an expert opinion in the precedential Supreme Court Judgement 6041/02, and since its publication assisted many mothers, children, and the attorneys who represent them in cases of alleged PAS. Since its publication, each week about 2-3 mothers on the verge of losing custody of their children in the PAS-afflicted Israeli courts and their attorneys call and seek advice, which I happily volunteer.

The article was reissued in Haderech, Women On Line (WOL) and Kedma, It was then reissued in many other portals and after such a large scale exposure, it generated several major research articles in Israel’s print media.

2002 “Then and Now: Women of Color in the American Elite Academy.” Kedma: The Eastern Gate Portal, edited by Sami Shalom Chetrit. 20 February [in Hebrew]. Re-issued in HaDerech.

2002 “Search the Mizrahi Woman.” Tel Aviv Weekly Magazine. 18 January 2002, pp. 26-27 [in Hebrew].

REPRINTED IN 2002, Mizrahi Feminism. Vardit Damari-Madar, ed., pp. 20-25. Jerusalem: Students for Social Justice (TZAH).

Cyber-Reprints in Kedma: The Eastern Gate and HaDerech feminist portal.

The article was then lifted from Kedma and copied into many Hebrew language forums at large-scale portals. These cyber-copies generated hundreds of readers’ responses.

Its English translation, entitled “Academic Apartheid in Israel and the LillyWhite Feminism of the Upper Middle Class” e-published first in the English edition of HaDerech. From there it was copied into numerous Israeli and Arab feminist and academicians’ internet forums. The English translation has also been e-published in Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal, Spring 2002 issue, the H-Net Middle East gender list in the Women Against Occupation portal , and I’ve recently learned that Amazon.com sells it. The article was translated into Italian.

2001 “The Racialized Dispossessed.” Review essay of Between Reggae and Rap: the Integration Challenge of Ethiopian Youth in Israel by Malka Shabtai, Cherikover, Israel, 2001. Ha’aretz Literary Supplement 451:1, 18. 17 October. [In Hebrew]

2001 “Rainbow Kufiyya.” In The Gift: An Art Project. Mario Rizzi, Ed. The Jerusalem Center for the Visual Arts, pp. 46-48.

Hebrew printed translation IN 2001, annefranQ no. 3, August 2001, pp. 11-3; 2002, Mizrahi Feminism. Vardit Damari-Madar, ed., pp. 70-74. Jerusalem: Students for Social Justice (TZAH). Re-issued in cyberspace in the Kedma and Pridezine portals [in Hebrew].

1996 "Introduction: Displacement, Diaspora, and Geographies of Identity." In "Displacement, Diaspora, and Geographies of Identity. Co-Authored with Ted Swedenburg, pp. 1-25. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

1996 Blowups in the Borderzones: Third World Israeli Authors' Gropings for Home." [This is a revised and expanded version of 1992 below.] In Displacement, Diaspora and Geographies of Identity (see above) pp. 55-96. Part 1, Part 2.

1996 "Between and Among the Boundaries of Culture: Bridging Text and Lived Experience in the Third Timespace." Cultural Studies 10(1):154-179.

1996 "Purim." Tehiyah Shelanu. 1(3):8-9.

1995 "Between and Among the Boundaries of Culture." Theory and Criticism 7:76-88 (co-authored with Ted Swedenburg, in Hebrew).

1995 "Border Poets: Translating by Dialogue." In Women Writing Culture. R. Behar and D. Gordon, eds. pp. 412-427. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Part 1, Part 2.

1995 "Reflections on the New Racism." Ha`aretz Weekly Magazine, 21 July 1995, pp. 28-32, 86.

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5.

1995 "Locating a Home on the Border: Third World Israelis, Minor Literature, and the Racial Formations of Zionism." Left Curve 19:10-30.

1994 "Naming: The Epistemology of the Closet in Hebrew Popular Music." KLAF Hazak (co-authored with Ya`el Ben-Zvi and Ya`el Ronen) 13:4-12 (in Hebrew).

1993 "Notes on the Fantastic Journey of the Hajj, His Anthropologist, and Her American Passport." American Ethnologist (co-authored with Hajj A. and Forest Rouse) 20(2):363-384.

1993 "Introduction." In Creativity/Anthropology pp. 1-8 (co-authored with Kirin Narayan and Renato Rosaldo, see above).

1993 "The One Who Writes Us: Political Allegory and the Experience of Occupation among the Mzeina Bedouin." In Creativity/Anthropology pp. 153-183.

1992 "Blow-Ups in the Borderzones: Third World Israeli Authors' Gropings for Home." New Formations 18:84-106.

1992 "Constructing and Representing Peoplehood in the Nation-State: Israel as Case Study." Review Essay of People as Subject, People as Object: Selfhood and Peoplehood in Contemporary Israel, Virginia R. Dominguez. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989. The Middle East Journal 46(4):683-685.

1992 "Immigration to Israel: A Misguided Policy." USA Today Magazine vol. 121, no. 2566:32-34.

1991 "The Bedouin, the Beatniks, and the Redemptive Fool." Quarterly Review of Film and Video special issue, "Discourse of the Other: Postcoloniality, Positionality, and Subjectivity" edited by H. Naficy and T. H. Gabriel -- 13(1-3):23-43. REPRINTED IN 1993, Otherness and the Media: The Ethnography of the Imagined and the Imaged. H. Naficy and T. H. Gabriel, eds., Chur, Switzerland: Harwood Academic Publishers.

1991 "Arrival of the New Cultured Tenants: Soviet Immigration to Israel and the Displacing of the Sephardi Jews." The Times Literary Supplement 4602:11, 14 June.

1991 "Voices in the Desert." Review essay of Bedouin Poetry from Sinai and the Negev: Mirror of a Culture, Clinton Bailey, Oxford University Press, 1991. The Times Literary Supplement 4612:22, 23 August.

1989 "When Leadership Becomes Allegory: Mzeina Sheikhs and the Experience of Occupation." Cultural Anthropology 4(2): 99-135.

1988 "Sinai for the Coffee Table: Birds, Bedouins and Desert Wanderlust." Review essay of The Sinai Spirit, Dani Rabinowitz, Adam Publications, Israel, 1987. MERIP - Middle East Report 150:40-44, special issue, "Human Rights and the Palestine Conflict."

1988 "The Sabra Yearning for the Desert." `Iton 77 Literary Monthly (in Hebrew) 101: 24-26.

1986 "The Poetics of Politics: An Allegory of Bedouin Identity." Political Anthropology special issue, "The Frailty of Authority," edited by M. J. Aronoff vol. 5:131-46.

1984 "The Fool and The Hippies: Ritual/Play and Social Inconsistencies Among the Mzeina Bedouin of the Sinai." In The Masks of Play. B. Sutton-Smith and D. Kelly-Byrne, eds. Pp. 63-70. New York: Leisure Press.

1984 "Bedouin in Limbo: Egyptian and Israeli Development Policies in the Southern Sinai." Antipode 16(2): 33-44. [co-authored with William C. Young]

Book Review

1991 Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation, Ella Shohat. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1989. The Middle East Journal 45(4):696-698.

Poetry Translations

1994 "Coyotismo," Janice Gould. KLAF Hazak 12:46 (in Hebrew).

1994 "The Education," Janice Gould. KLAF Hazak 12:47 (in Hebrew).

1994 Untitled Poem from And A Moon Drips Madness. Amira Hess (Tel Aviv, 1984). Left Curve 18:76.

1994 "I Love in White Ink." Siham Daoud. Left Curve 18:75.

1993 "I Ain't the Right Kind of Feminist." Cheryl L. West. Nogah: A Feminist Magazine 26:45 (in Hebrew).

1993 "The Maid." Bracha Serri. In The Eastern Aspect: Other News from Israel. D. Hurwitz, A. Brauner, and J. Boyarin, eds. p. 6. Santa Cruz: Resource Center for Nonviolence. REPRINTED IN Left Curve 18:76.

1991 "Back to the Village," Na`im `Araidi. The Times Literary Supplement 4623:5.

1991 "Shopping on Dizengov Street," Erez Biton. The Times Literary Supplement 4623:5.

1990 "`Abd al-Hadi Fights the Big Superpower," Muhammad `Ali Taha. MERIP - Middle East Report 164/165 (vol. 20, no. 3/4):38, special issue, "Intifada -- Year Three."

Other Translations

2005 “Political Discourse.” Translation of the Lees-Lavie-Lathrop letter exchange in Anthropology Newsletter, May, pp. 3-4, in Kedma: the Eastern Gate

2004 “Letters on Racinated Peace: Judith Butler, Lynne Segal, and Ahoti-For Women in Israel.” Translated between the Hebrew and English and Edited by Smadar Lavie. Kedma: the Eastern Gate portal. Sami Shalom Chetrit, Ed. [in Hebrew]

An abbreviated version published Ahoti [Sistah, Heb.] – Newsletter 4, March 2004, p. 8.

2003 “The Exclusion of Mizrahi and Palestinian Anthropologists from the Faculty Club.” Translation of a Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow Press Release written by Nurit Hajjaj. 29 May.

Replies

2005 “Political Discourse.” Reply to Susan H. Lees’s AN letter to the editor re. Lavie’s “Israeli Anthropology and American Anthropology” 2005. Anthropology News, May issue.

2005 “The Pros and Cons of Boycotts.” Reply to several articles discussing the British AUT proposal to boycott Israeli academic institutions. The Guardian, 21 April

2003 “Imprisoned.” Reply to Billy Moscone-Lerman’s “Disconnected until Further Notice.” Maariv’s Weekly Magazine, 10 December, p. 4.

2003 “Doesn’t Stand the Entrance Requirements.” Reply to “Real Problem” – a collections of letters to the editor supporting PAS, 22 August, which were written in response to Traubmann’s article on PAS of 15 August. Haaretz 29 August, p. B12.

1999 “Twice Battered.” Reply to an article on the arrival of PAS to the Israeli courts. Ma`ariv Daily, 9 November

See also “Mom Doesn’t Alienate.” Reply to Yael Hen’s article on PAS. Ma`ariv’s Women’s Supplement, 16 November.

1991 "The Mzeini Dialect." Reply to Pierre Cachia's review of The Poetics of Military Occupation (The Times Literary Supplement 4612:23). The Times Literary Supplement 4618:19.

1990 Replay to Paul Dresch's review of The Poetics of Military Occupation (The Middle East Journal 45[3]:525-526). The Middle East Journal 46(1):155-157.

Press Releases

2004 “Judith Butler and Lynne Segal in Ahoti’s Latest Newsletter on Peace and Social Justice.” 3 May.

2004 “Dr. Vicki Shiran, Founder of Israel’s Mizrahi Feminism-of-Color, is No Longer With Us.” 17 March.

WORK IN PROGRESS

Books

Hebrew as Step-Mother Tongue: How the Lives and Works of Arabic-Speaking Jewish and Palestinian Authors Rupture Israel's Eurocentrism

Not Without My Son: PAS and Racial Justice in the California and Israeli Family Courts

Genderwork and the Racial Formation of Zionism

An edited volume of my scholarly and media articles published since the Poetics book.

Ashkenazim

Proceedings of the June 2004 conference bearing the same title. A collection of articles co-edited with Rafi Shubeli and Ktzi`a `Alon

Articles

“Feminist Mediations of Home and Exile: Gendering the Race of Israel/Palestine during the Al-Aqsa Intifada.” Review essay of the 2^nd edition of Women and the Politics of Military Confrontation: Palestinian and Israeli Gendered Narratives of Dislocation Nahla Abdo and Ronit Lentin (eds.),. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books. Journal of Holy Land Studies. To be published in December 2006.

“De/Racinated Transcendental Conversions: Witchcraft, Oracle and Magic Among the Israeli Feminist Peace Camp.” In Territorio, ed. Pier Giorgio Solinas. Siena University Press.

“Cultural Property Rights and the Racial Construction of the Mizrahi as a Trade-Mark: Notes on the Revolving Door of Israel’s Academe-Regime.” In A Rainbow of Opinions: The Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow’s First Decade. (Keshet Shel De`ot: `Asor LaKeshet HaDemokratit HaMizrahit, Hebrew) November Press, Tel Aviv. To be published in April 2007.

“A Case Study: On the Progress of Affirmative Action and Cultural Rights for Marginalized Communities in Israel.” Co-authored with Rafi Shubeli

Anthropology Newsletter.

UNIVERSITY FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS

Beit Berl Teachers’ College does not grant any fellowships or grants to visiting faculty

1995/6 University of California at Davis, Faculty Research Grant

1994/5 University of California at Davis, Faculty Research Grant

1994/5 University of California at Davis, Multicultural Teaching Grant

1993/4 Stanford Humanities Center Junior Fellowship

1993/4 Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Grant

1993/4 Rice University Rockefeller Fellowship in Cultural Studies (declined)

1993/4 Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University Postdoctoral Fellowship (alternate)

1993/4 University of California at Davis, Junior Faculty Research Grant

1993 The Rockefeller Foundation's Study and Conference Center in Bellagio, Italy. Collaborative Research Group on "Cultural Agency/Cultural Authority: Politics and Poetics of Intellectual Property in the Postcolonial Era." (8-13 March).

1991/2 University of California Humanities Research Institute at Irvine, Residential Group Fellowship for "Dependency and Autonomy: The Relation of Minority Discourse to Dominant Culture" (Fall-Spring )

1991/2 University of California at Davis Junior Faculty Research Grant

1991 University of California at Davis Summer Junior Faculty Research Grant

1990/91 University of California at Davis New Junior Faculty Research Grant

1989 University of California at Berkeley, Center for Middle Eastern Studies: Postdoctoral Fellowship

1987/8 University of California at Berkeley Humanities Research Grant

1983/4 Mabel McLeod Lewis Dissertation Award

1982/3 University of California Regents' Fellowship

1981/82 Lowie Foundation Grant

1980/1 University of California Regents' Fellowship

Lowie Foundation Fieldwork Grant

1979/80 Lowie Foundation Grant

1979 Fulbright-Hays Travel Grant

1978-9 National Sound Archive, Jerusalem: Grant to establish Bedouin repository

1976-9 The Ford Foundation Fieldwork Grant [via the Desert Research Institute, Israel]

1976-9 Helena Rubinstein Foundation Tuition grants

COURSES TAUGHT

Anthropology of Religion; Borders and Diasporas; Equal Opportunities in Education; Ethnographic Writing; Ethnographies of Palestine and Israel; Feminist Discourses of Rights; Introduction to Cross-Cultural Gender Studies; Introduction to Feminist Theories of Color; Introduction to Social-Cultural Anthropology; Minorities in Culture and Literature; Multiculturalism in Decolonization; Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East; Post/Modernity, Culture, and Religion; Postmodernism(s) and Culture; “Post"/NeoColonialism and Identity Politics; Research Methods for Anthropologists; Survey of Ethnographies across the World; Women and Leadership.

STUDENT ADVISING

Graduate

Abastado, Rinat. San Francisco State University. Feminist Theories on Race and Mizrahi Women’s History. 1996-1997.

`Alon, Ktzi`a. Hebrew U. Feminist Theory of Color. 2003.

Chaudhry, Lubna. Davis. “Hybridization of Identities: A Critical Feminist Ethnography of the Education of Pakistani Muslim Immigrant Women in the U.S.” 1991-1994.

Cohen, Ilise. San Francisco Institute of Integral Studies. “Mizrahim and the Nakba.” 2005-6.

Daloumi, Irit. Lesley College, IL. Mizrahi Women Artists’ Journals. 2003.

Ducker, Claire. Institute of Social Studies, the Netherlands. “Jews, Arabs and Arab Jews: The Politics of Identity and Reproduction in Israel.” 2005-6

Dukes, Tamara. Davis. Cuban Immigrants in Miami and Los Angeles; AIDS Advocacy. 1995-1998

England, Sara. Davis. “The Political Economy of Culture: Ethnicity and the Political Ideology of a Garifuna Grassroots Movement.” 1994-1996.

Freeling Sharon. Bar Ilan U.Parental Alienation Syndrome: Comparative Analysis of Family Courts. 2003.

Ghanem, Hunaida. Hebrew U. Palestinian Intellectuals and the Nakba. 2002-2004

Hamilton, Karine. Curtain U of Technology, Australia. “The Politics of Silence: Israelis and Representations of the Sabra and Shatila Massacre.” 2004

Homa, David. Nebraska U., Lincoln. “Interaction Between Travelers to Dahab, Egypt, and Bedouin Youth.” 1997.

Kravitz-Ober, Holly. Davis. Whiteness and Political Identity among U.S.Gun Nuts. 1995-1997.

LaBergere, Ileana. Davis. Postcolonialism and Chicana Feminism. 1994-1996

Madmoni, Shoshana. Hebrew U. The Yemeni Children Affair. 1994-1995.

Mahmood, Sabah. Stanford. Agency, Islam, and Postcolonial Gender Theory. 1993-1994.

Makhoul, Sanaa. SJ State. Palestinian Women Artists. 1997.

Masri, Ghada. Davis. “Voices from CyberLebanon: Women’s Voices and National Identity.” 1995-1996.

Meishar, Naama. Hebrew U. “Writing in White Ink: Gardening Practices of Mizrahi Women in South Tel Aviv.” 2002-2004

Moore, Donald B. Davis.Critical Race Theory and Mixed-Race People. 1994-1996.

Naber, Nadine. Davis. Race and Postcolonialism in the Context of Arab Americans, 1994-1998.

Razieli, Sandra. Stanford. The Mizrahi Struggle and the Racial Formations of Israel. 1994-1995.

Sa`ada-Ophir, Galit. Hebrew U. Mizrahi Music and the Arab-Jewish Borderland. 2002-2003.

Saunders, Mimi. Davis. Cultural Citizenship and Bilingual Schooling in California; Feminist Theory of Color. 1994-1998

Stein, Rebecca. Stanford. Post/Neocolonialism and Identity. 1993-1994.

Stephens, Gregory. Davis. Interracial Communities. 1991-1993.

Torstrick, Rebecca, Washington U. “Raising and Rupturing Boundaries: The Politics of Identity in Acre.” 1988-1989.

Yosef, Raz. Tel Aviv U. Mizrahi Masculinities in Israeli Cinema. 1998

Zeid, Shoshi. Independent Scholar, IL. The Kidnapped Yemeni Babies Affair. [rejected for PhD studies by Hebrew University as a non-topic], 2004

Undergraduate

Agrama, Hussein. Davis. Egyptian Masculinities. 1992-1994.

Ben-Zvi, Yael. Tel Aviv U. Israeli Lesbians and Ashkenazi Racinations of Sex and Gender. 1993-1997.

Chianese, Venessa. Davis. Palestine and Cultural Theory. 1991-1992.

Dietz, Lora. Davis. European Identities. 1991-1992.

Jamal, Manal. Davis. Gender and Development in Palestine. 1992-1995.

Kurzman, Steve. Davis. Tattooing and the New Triablism. 1991-1993.

Mitchell, Cheryl. Davis. “Fetishization of Southest Asian Cultures Through Ethnic Goods.” 1997

Neis, Pini. U. of London. Fieldwork in Jerusalem. Spring-Summer 2004.

Pandya, Sameer. Davis. Disjunctures, Borders and the Postcolonial Subject. 1992-1993.

Williams, Monique. Davis. Culture and Public Health Administration. 1997.

Zarini, Iris. Open U. IL. “Capital and Networking: Socialization Processes of Mizrahi Professors in Israel’s Academe.” 2004.

INVITED CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

2006 “Sexual Politics of the Mizrahi Struggle: Preliminary Thoughts.” Presented at “Out of Place: Interrogating Silences in Queerness/Raciality.” Lancaster University, March 24-25.

2005 “US-European Peregrinations: Israel’s Peace Camp.” Ege University 10^th International Cultural Studies Symposium, “When ‘Away’ Becomes ‘Home’: Cultural Consequences of Migration.” Izmir, May 4-6 [via CD-Rom, plenary session speakers commented on the politics behind my inability to travel out of Israel and attend the conference)

2005 “Emerson’s Philosophy and Witchcraft Theories: Israeli Gender Studies.” Conference in Memory of Vicki Shiran, “State-Racism-Women.” Beit Berl College, March 16. (in Hebrew)

2005 “De/Racinated Transcendental Conversions: Witchcraft, Oracle and Magic Among the Ashkenazi-Israeli Feminist Peace Camp.” The 2^nd Christina Conference on Women’s Studies, “Gender, Religion and Theory in Dialogue.” March 3-5 [paper was read in my absence]

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2004 “Mizrahim as Commodity/Signs, Mizrahim as Authors: Cultural Property Rights and the Racial Formations of Israel’s Academe-Regime.” Presented in a conference, ‘The New IP Order,” in a 4-participant panel on “Culture and Copyright.” Haifa University, 14 June.

2004 “The Ashkenazim.” A whole day 18-paper conference in Memory of Vicki Shiran, co-organized with Rafi Shubeli and Yoaz Eliad. This was the first ever academic conference to discuss Ashkenazi Jews in the context of whiteness. Panels were on Identity, Governmentality, Culture and Politics. At its peak the, conference attracted 450 audience. Conference was held in Beit Berl Teachers’ College.

In the Politics panel of this conference, I delivered a paper, “Transcendental Conversions of Racism: The Witchcraft of Israel’s so-called Left.”

2004 “Vicki Shiran and ‘The Ashkenazim, from the Bunker’.” A panel dedicated to the memory of the founder of Israel’s feminism of color, “Vicki Shiran: The Never Ending Revolution.” Organized by Erella Shadmi for the Virginia L. Snitow Public Lecture Series. Tel Aviv University. 30 April.

2004 “The Evolution of Joint Custody in California.” Israeli BAR Association Legislation Committee on Women’s Rights workshop on the Tender Years Doctrine. 12 January.

2004 “Edward Said: Mirrors of the West’s Face.” Part of a 3-paper Panel dedicated to the memory of Edward Said. Other speakers were Ilan Pappe, Haifa U., and Jamal Zahalkah, KM. Tel Aviv’s Cinemateque, 4 January.

2003 “The Amicus Curie Brief: Feminist Scholarship in Action.” Conference on “The Unbearable Lightness of Child Removals.” Beit Berl College, 31 October.

2003 “Social Engineering: Diary Fragments, Summer 2003.” Conference of scholars, activists and KMs on “The Right for Social Defense: Single Mothers and Other Women.” Bar Ilan University and the Israeli Association for Feminist Studies. 12 September.

2003 “Our Story and Others: Between and Among the Boundaries of Culture.” A Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow conference, “Mizrahi Literature: Our Story.” Conference co-organized by Lavie with Zmira Ron and Shula Keshet. The Left Bank, Tel Aviv, 12 June.

2003 “Mizrahi Feminism, the Question of Palestine, and the Racial Formations of the Israeli Left” A 4-paper panel on racism in the Mediterrenean in Womanoeuvres, an international women’s peace conference of the CFD: The NGO for Women’s Empowerment. Zurich, 22-24 May.

2003 “The Best Interest of the Child: The Crisis of Legitimacy in Israel’s Family Courts.” Beit Berl, SHIN (Equality in Women’s Representation) and New Manhood Joint Conference, “Child Custody: From Struggle to Dialogue.” March 21.

2003 “Reflections on the White Mythologies of Israel’s Educational System.” Presented at a 4-paper conference on Mizrahim and Education, co-organized by the Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow and Tel Aviv University. 3 March.

2002 “Presence and Representation of Mizrahi and Palestinian Women.” A 4-paper Conference, “Mizrahi Read: Feminism and the Arts,” organized by Ktzi`a `Alon for Ahoti. Tel Aviv Main Public Library, Beit Ariela. 19 June.

2001 “Anthropological Fieldwork Projects for Highschool Students: Biography and Society.” Social Studies Teachers’ Workshop. Beit Berl 13 December.

1999 “Anthropological Fieldwork for Highschool Students: Writing the Culture of Events.” Beit Berl Teachers’ College program for Highschool Social Studies Teachers. 2 April.

1996 "How Do I 'Finish the Month' with the Peace Economy? Slum Housemaids, Filipinas, and the Society Ladies of North Tel Aviv." First Israeli Mizrahi Conference, "We Are Here and This Is Ours." Natanya, Israel, 17-18 May 1996.

1995 "Global/Local Relations: Notes on the Art of Staying Put." Theory Culture and Society Meeting. Berlin, 10-13 August.

1995 "Gendering the Oslo ‘Peace’ Agreement." Israeli Feminist Association Meetings. Ramat Ef`al, 9-10 June.

1994 "Building Bridges: Ethnography, Minority Discourse, Cultural Studies." Workshop on methodologies for teaching Minority Discourse and cross-cultural Ethnic Studies. Humanities Research Institute, University of California at Irvine, 15-16 April.

1994 "Between and Among the Boundaries of Culture: Geographies of Identity in the Third Timespace." Conference on "Political Geographies of Race." Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture. Rutgers University, 17-18 February.

1994 "Conflicts in Israeli Feminism(s)." Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheba, Israel. Conference on "Israel in the Nineties." 9-10 January.

1993 Decennial Conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists (ASA) of the British Commonwealth, Oxford University, England. Plenary session, "Counterwork: Managing Diverse Knowledges," organized by Richard Fardon of the London School of Economics. 26-30 July. (Declined due to the relative absence of Minority and Third World women participants).

1993 "Colonial/Racial Formations of Zionism: A Gendered Analysis." Center for Asian Studies, Amsterdam School for Social Research, the Netherlands. Conference on "Colonial Ethnographies." 14-16 June.

1993 "Silenced from All Directions: Third World Israeli Women Writing in the Race/Gender Borderzones of the Nation." The Beatrice M. Bain Research Group, U. C. Berkeley. "Between Women and Nation: Feminism and Global Issues" Conference. 22-23 April.

1993 "Notes on the Fantastic Journey of the Hajj, His Anthropologist, and Her American Passport." Center for International and Comparative Studies at the University of Iowa. Panel on "The Performing Arts: Nomadic Oral and Literary Traditions," in the conference "Representing Nomadic Cultures." 1-4 April.

1993 "Silenced from All Directions: Third World Israeli Women Writing in the Race/Gender Borderzone of the Nation." The Rockefeller Center, Bellagio, Italy. Conference on "Cultural Agency/Cultural Authority: Politics and Poetics of Intellectual Property in the Postcolonial Era." 8-12 March.

1992 "The Culture of Ruins." Conference Discussant. Center for Cultural Studies and Department of Anthropology, University of California at Santa Cruz. 24-26 January.

1991 "Arab Deserts, American Dollars, and Jewish Diasporas: Notes on the Bedouin as Israeli Colonialist Allegory." Conference on "Narrative Focalization." Nice, France, 12-14 June.

1991 "'Hebrew as Step-Mother Tongue': How the Lives and Works of Arabic-Speaking Jewish and Palestinian Authors Rupture Israel's Eurocentrism." Conference on "The Canon and Marginality." State University of New York at Binghamton, 2-5 May.

1991 "Authorship, Repression, and Revolution." Discussant for a 4 paper panel of a conference sponsored by the Society for Critical Exchange on the topic, "Intellectual Property and the Construction of Authorship." Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, 18-21 April.

1991 "Misguided Euphoria: Soviet Immigration to Israel." University of California's Institute of Global Conflict and Cooperation and U.C. Berkeley's Institute of International Studies. Conference on "Confrontation in the Gulf." 12 April.

1989 "Old Age, Gender Relations, and Military Occupation." Conference on Gender and Colonialism. Group for the Critical Study of Colonialism and the Beatrice M. Bain Foundation for Study of Gender. University of California at Berkeley, 6 October.

1989 "'Cliffs will Bugle, Sun Will Burn, To Us All Radiance Return': Desert Poetics and State Politics in Israel and Egypt." Anthropology of Landscape Conference. London School of Economics. 23 June.

1986 "Allegories of Leadership and the Experience of Occupation among the Mzeina Bedouin." Group for the Critical Study of Colonial Discourse Conference. University of California at Santa Cruz. 26 April.

PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS

Symposia Organized

2002 “Let the Subaltern Speak! Gendering the Race(ism) of the Category ‘Woman’ in Israel/Palestine.” A 7-paper, 2-Discussant double session organized for the annual meetings of the Israeli Anthropological Association. Ma`ale HaHamisha, 29-30 May.

1993 "Building Bridges: Ethnography, Minority Discourse, Cultural Studies." Invited session [co-organized with Renato Rosaldo] sponsored by the American Ethnological Society and the Society for Humanistic Anthropology. Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Washington DC, 17-21 November.

1991 "Displacement, Diaspora, and Geographies of Identity." Invited session [co-organized with Kirin Narayan, Renato Rosaldo, and Ted Swedenburg] sponsored by the Society for Humanistic Anthropology and the Society for Cultural Anthropology. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL, 20-24 November.

1991 "Eurocentrism and the Tropics of Middle Eastern Identity" [co-organized with Ted Swedenburg]. Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association of North America, Washington D.C., 23-26 November.

1988 "Unveiling Agendas: Person and Power in the Creation of Anthropological Knowledge." Invited session [co-organized with Kirin Narayan and Renato Rosaldo] sponsored by the General Anthropology Division, Society for Humanistic Anthropology, Society for Cultural Anthropology, and American Ethnological Society. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Phoenix, AZ, 18 November.

1988 "Arab Others, Arab Selves and Ourselves: The Experience of Power and the Politics of Representation" [co-organized with Joel Beinin]. Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association of North America, Los Angeles, CA, 4 November.

1986 "'Othering': Representations and Realities." Session sponsored by the Society for Humanistic Anthropology [co-organized with Kirin Narayan and Renato Rosaldo]. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, PA, 4 December.

1984 "Persuasions and Performances: The Poetics of Self and Society." Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association [co- organized with Kirin Narayan and Renato Rosaldo and dedicated to the memory of the late Victor Turner]. Denver, CO, 15 November.

Papers Presented

2006 “Transnational English Tyranny: The Predicament of Transversal Anthropology.” Bi-annual meetings of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), in the session “World Anthropologies Network: Transforming the Terms of the Conversation” organized by Aleksandar Boskovic and Juan Ricardo Aparicio., Bristol, 18-21 September.

2006 “Mizrahi Feminism, the Struggle for Palestine, and the Racial Formations of the Israeli Left.” Second World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES-2), in a 3-session panel, “Gender Relations in (Post)-Conflict” organized by Martina Kamp Susanne Dahlgren. Amman, 15-16 June.

2006 “Transnational English Tyranny: The Predicament of Transversal Anthropology.” Annual Meeting of the Society for Cultural Anthropology, themed “Translations of Value,” in the panel, “Critique of Anthropology” (delivered via CD-Rom due to scheduling conflict with Italy lecture tour, see below). May 6.

2004 “Israeli Anthropology and Apartheid: Intellectual Property, Mizrahi Politics, and the Right of Return.” Bi-Annual Meetings of EASA, in the session “Minority Rights, Culture, and Anthropology” (organized by Reeta Toivanen and Levent Soysal). Vienna, 10 September.

2003 “De/Racinated Transcendental Conversions: Witchcraft, Oracle and Magic Among the Israeli Peace Camp.” Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, in the invited plenary, “The Violence of Representation and Its Discontents: Creating Publics, Borders and Bridges.” (Organized by Charles Briggs). Chicago, IL 22 November.

2003 “The PostModern Turn of the Best Interest of the Child.” Annual Meetings of Israel’s Educational Psychologists’ Association. Shfayim Conference Center, 3 June.

1994 "Area Studies, Transnationalism, and the Art of Staying Put." Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, in the invited Panel, "Intersections: Minority Discourse/Area Studies/Cultural Studies" (organized by Lisa Yoneyama). Atlanta, GA, 3 December.

1993 "Beyond the Boundary of 'Culture.'" Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, in the invited Panel, "Building Bridges: Ethnography, Minority Discourse, Cultural Studies" (see above). Washington D.C., 18 November.

1992 "The Gendered Border: Writings and Silences of Dark Israeli Women." Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, in the invited panel, "Cultural Borders/Border Crossing" (organized by Lisa Rofel). San Francisco, 2 December.

1992 "Palestine and the Racial Formations of Zionism" [co-authored with Ted Swedenburg]. Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association (MLA), in the invited panel, "Jews and Colonial Discourse" (organized by Daniel Boyarin). New York, 28 December.

1992 "Race/Gender and the Writings of Third World Israeli Women." Annual Meeting of the M/MLA Association, in the invited panel. "Colonialism, Nationalism, and the Gendered Subject" (co-organized by Mary Layoun and Anuradha Dingwaney Needham for the Society for Critical Exchange). St. Louis, 6 November.

1992 "Silent Intersections: Subjectivities of Race and Gender in the Lives and Words of Third World Israeli Women Writers." Annual Meeting of the Association for Israeli Studies. Milwaukee, WI 24-25 May.

1992 "Blow Ups in the Borderzones: Third World Israeli Authors' Gropings for Home." Annual Meeting of the American Ethnological Society, in the panel, "Culture, Politics, and the Imaging of Contested Terrains in Literature." Memphis, TN, 25-29 March.

1991 "'Hebrew as Step-Mother Tongue' and the Rupture of Israel's Eurocentrism." Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, in the panel, "Displacement, Diaspora, and Geographies of Identity" (see above).

1991 "'Birds Between Continents': The Lives and Works of Third World Israeli Authors." Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association of North America, in the panel "Eurocentrism and the Tropics of Middle Eastern Identity" (see above).

1990 "Ethnographic Creativity and the Discourse of Subalternity." Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in the invited panel, "Scientific and Humanistic Ways of Understanding in Anthropology." New Orleans, LA, 28 November-2 December.

1989 "The Old Woman (`Ajuz): Allegories of Gender Relations and the Poetics of Military Occupation." Rethinking Marxism Conference, in the panel "Israel/Palestine," organized by Barbara Harlow and Karen Pfeifer. University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 29 November-2 December.

1988 "Notes on the Fantastic Journey of the Hajj, His Anthropologist, and Her American Passport" [co-authored with Forest Rouse]. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, in the panel "Unveiling Agendas: Person and Power in the Creation of Anthropological Knowledge" (see above).

1988 "Yearning for the Pastoral: Israeli Desert Wanderlust and its Bedouin Critique." Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association of North America, in the panel "Arab Others, Arab Selves and Ourselves" (see above).

1988 "Mzeina Patrilineal Segmentarity -- A Docu-Drama." Annual Meeting of the Kroeber Anthropological Society. Berkeley, CA, 16 April.

1986 "Silence, or 'Why Won't You Write My Genealogy?': Inscriptions of Tribal Identity." Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, in the panel "'Othering': Representations and Realities." (see above).

1985 "The Sheikh: Experience and Allegory of Bedouin Identity." Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, in the panel "Self, Text, and Social Meaning," Washington, DC, 5 December.

1985 "Allegories of Leadership and the Experience of Occupation among the Mzeina Bedouin." Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association of North America, in the panel "Tribal Law and Identity," New Orleans, LA, 24 November.

1984 "The One Who Writes Us: Allegory of Experience and Paradoxes of Occupation among the Mzeina Bedouin of the Southern Sinai." Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, in the panel "Persuasions and Performances: The Poetics of Self and Society" (see above).

1984 "Allegory of Fieldwork: The Poetics of Self and Occupation of Society among the Mzeina of the Sinai." Annual Meeting of the Middle Eastern Studies Association of the United States, in the panel "Tribe and State: Nomadic Identity and Political History in Discord," San Francisco, CA, 30 November.

1983 "Spontaneous Theater and Social Inconsistencies Among the Mzeina Bedouin of the Sinai." Annual Meeting of the American Ethnological Society, in the panel "The Last Word on Play Research," [chaired by author], Baton Rouge, LA, 10-14 February.

1982 "The Madwoman: Ritual/Play and Social Inconsistencies Among the Mzeina Bedouin." Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association of North America, in the panel "Aesthetics and Folk Art in the Middle East," Philadelphia, PA, 3-6 November.

1982 "The Fool and the Hippies: Ritual/Play and Social Inconsistencies among the Mzeina Bedouin." Annual Meeting of the Association for the Anthropological Study of Play, London, Ontario (Canada), 2 April.

Symposia Discussant

2003 “On the Silenced Creations of Subaltern Women.” A 4-paper panel organized by Na`ama Meishar for the Israeli Anthropological Association annual meetings. Neve Ilan, 29 May.

2003 ”Between and Among the Boundaries of Culture: A Decade to the Lavie-Swedenburg Article.” A 3-paper panel chaired by Don Handelman for the annual meetings of the Israeli Anthropological Association. Neve Ilan, 29 May.

2002 “Let the Subaltern Women Speak: Gendering the Race(ism) of the Category ‘Woman’ in Israel/Palestine.” Co-discussant for a 7-paper double session organized for the annual meetings of the Israeli Anthropological Association. Ma`ale HaHamisha, 29-30 May.

2001 “Multicultural Education.” A 4-paper panel organized by Esther Herzog for the Social Studies Highschool Teachers’ Workshop. Beit Berl, 13 December.

1996 "Arab-American Feminism." A 4-paper panel organized by Nadine Naber for the annual meeting of the Arab American University Graduate Association. Anaheim, CA, 19 October.

1995 "Gendering Violence: Transcending Public/Private Categories through Institutional Space." A 9-paper panel organized by Rebecca Torstrick, and Jennifer G. Curtis for the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Washington D.C., 15-18 November.

1992 "Breaking Boundaries: New Voices on Israel/Palestine." An 8 paper panel organized by Becky Torstrick, Davida Woods, and Virginia Dominguez for the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association. San Francisco, CA., 2-6 December 1992.

1991 "War, Violence, and the Politics of Memory: Narrative, Power, and Representation." A 6 paper panel organized by Lisa Yoneyama and Hugh Gusterson for the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Chicago, IL. 21 November.

SELECTED INVITED TALKS

2006 “Geographies of Identity: Origins, Belongings, and the Journey Beyond Conventional Utopias for Israelo-Palestinian Coexistence.” Part of an annual lecture series on Postcoloniality. Basso Foundations for the Humanities, Rome. 10 May.

2006 “Arab Jewish Utopias and Ashkenazi Supremacy in Israel: The Race-Religion-Class-Gender Conundrum.” Faculty of Letters and Philosophy, University of Rome. 9 May.

2006 “Israeli Discrimination(s).” University of Milan and Hawiyya-Palestine Solidarity Committee Lecture series on Borders/Frontiers [other speakers were Mahmoud Darwish, Eyal Sivan and Michel Khleifi, and Tanya Reinhart]. La Casermetta, Siena, 6 May.

2006 “De/Racinated Borderzones: E. E. Evans Pritchard and the Magical Oratory of Israel’s Peace Camp.” University of Siena, Anthropology Department’s Annual Seminar, “Field, Space and Territory.” 5 May.

2006 “Feminism, Ethnicity, and the Middle East Peace Process.” Milan’s Women’s University [together with Marcella Simoni, University of Venice]. Milan, 3 May.

2006 “Translation, NGO Activism and Anthropology: The Transnational English Tyranny.” Sociology-Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Bicocca University, Milan, 3 May.

2006 “Mizrahi Feminism at the Crossroad.” Olive Tree Educational Trust Program. City University, London. 22 March.

2005 “The Social Struggle: From Margins to Center.” ISEF (International Sephardi Educational Fund.). Forum for ISEF graduate students from all Israeli Universities. Beer Sheba, 27 May.

2004 “Globalization and the Feminization of Poverty.” Alma College, Tel Aviv, 21 January.

2004 “Transnationalism and Feminism of Color.” Alma College, Tel Aviv, 7 January.

2003 “Journey from the Combahee River Collective to Ahoti.” Higher Education Council’s Worshop on Gender for Highschool Teachers. Kfar HaMakabiyya Conference Center. 13 October.

2003 “Borderwork: How to Form Successful Mizrahi-Palestinian Feminist Coalitions that Work.” The Hertzeliyya Arab-Jewish Center for Economic Development MBA program. Haifa, 5 September.

2003 “Civil Rights and Women’s Rights: A Critical Race Theory Analysis.” Mandel Institute Postgraduate Leadership Program, Jerusalem, 2 July.

2002 “Oppression and Resistance.” ISEF (International Sephardi Educational Fund), Bar Ilan University. 6 December.

2002 “Fatma, The Mizrahi Question, and Globalization.” Eastern Sun (Mizrah Shemesh) Postgraduate Seminar. Jerusalem, 26 June.

2002 “Theory and Practice of Mizrahi Identity.” Students for Social Justice of the Hebrew University. Jerusalem. 11 May.

2002 “Academic Nomadism, Transnationality, and the Art of Staying Put.” Institute for the History and Philosophy of Sciences and Ideas, Tel Aviv University. 22 April. Same lecture was given at the Humphry Institute of Ben Gurion Univ. of Beer Sheba on 8 May.

2002 “Israeli Womanhood.” Beit Berl Program for Kindergarten Teachers. 28 April.

2002 “Mizrahi Feminism in Israel.” Lesley College, Nataniya, 13 March.

2002 “The MultiCultural Curriculum.” Beit Berl Multicultural Faculty Team. 23 January.

2002 “Feminism/PostColonialism/Queer Theory.” Alma College, Tel Aviv. 1 January.

2001 Displacement, Diaspora, and Geographies of Identity and The Poetics of Military Occupation. Author meets Critics. Tmol Shilshom Bookstore. Jerusalem. 5 August.

2001 “Between and Among the Boundaries of Culture.” Author meets Critics. Beit Berl’s School for the Arts. 18 April.

1999 “Anthropological Fieldwork Projects for Highschool Students: Documenting the Performance of the Everyday.” Social Studies Teachers’ Workshop. Beit Berl. 2 April.

1996 "Transnationalism, Position, and Representation." Department of Women's Studies. Mills College. 22 April.

1995 "Between and Among the Boundaries of Culture." Department of Sociology/Anthropology, Haifa University. 13 June.

1995 "The Art of Staying Put." Lecture series on Reformulating Area Studies, Department of Communications, University of California at San Diego.(18 May.

1995 "Ethnography/Minority Discourse/Cultural Studies." Department of Anthropology Weekly Seminar, University of California at Santa Barbara. 5 May.

1995 "The Middle East Peace Process: Voices from the Other Israel." Middle East Institute, Columbia University. 5 April.

1995 "Zionist Conceptions of Palestinian and Mizrahi Gender(s) in Israel." Lecture Series on Gender and Power in the Middle East. Smith College. 3 April.

1994 "Building Bridges: Ethnography, Minority Discourse, Cultural Studies." Faculty Seminar, Mills College. 27 April.

1994 "The Middle East Peace Process: Voices from the Other Israel." Stanford Middle East Focus. 1 March.

1994 The Poetics of Military Occupation. Author Meets Critics. University of California at Santa Cruz. 22 February.

1994 "Geographies of Identity." Sociology Colloquium, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 10 January.

1994 "After Postmodernism: Cultural Studies and the Constructions of Race and Gender." Cinema Studies Colloquium, Tel Aviv University. 13 January.

1993 "Dark Women Writing Culture: Third World Feminism in Israel." Adva Center for Equality and the Tel Aviv Cinematheque. 22 December.

1993 "Displacement, Diaspora, and the Boundaries of Culture." Center for Critical and Cultural Theory Seminar. University of Wales College of Cardiff. 8 December.

1993 "Between and Among the Boundaries of Culture: Experience and Text in the third timespace." Department of Anthropology and Sociology Seminar, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. 7 December.

1993 "Silenced from All Directions: Third World Israelis Writing in the Race/Gender Borderzone of the Nation." Anthropology Colloquium, Stanford University. 18 October.

1993 "Changing Alliances in the Middle East: The Cultural Readings." The Ethics of Development in a Global Environment Weekly Seminar. Stanford University. 13 October.

1993 The Poetics of Military Occupation. Author meets Critics. Center for Cultural Studies and Department of Anthropology. U.C. Santa Cruz. 17 May.

1993 "Third World Israelis, National Literature, and the Racial Formations of Israel." School of American Research at Santa Fe weekly colloquium. 14 April.

1993 The Poetics of Military Occupation. Author meets Critics. Department of Anthropology, San Francisco State University. 22 March.

1993 "Silence and Violence in the Borderzone: Third World Israeli Women Writing the Gender/Race ConterFormations of Zionism." Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. 1 February.

1993 "Identity -- Essence or Construction?" Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. 2 February.

1992 "Blow-Ups in the Borderzones: Third World Israeli Authors' Gropings for Home." The Monday Seminar, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago. 9 November.

1992 "Border Crossings: National Literature and Third World Israelis." Department of Anthropology Colloquium, University of California at Irvine. 14 May.

1992 "Zionism and Womanhood in Israel." Feminist Studies FRA and Women's Studies, University of California at Santa Cruz. 29 April.

1992 "Locating a Home on the Border: Third World Israelis, Minor Literature, and the Racial Formations of Zionism." Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of California at Los Angeles. 22 April.

1990 "When Identity Becomes Allegory: The Poetic Reconstruction of Military Occupation." Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson. 15 February.

1990 "The Poetics of Tribal Identity and the Politics of Allegory among the Mzeina Bedouin." Department of Anthropology, University of Southern California. 7 February.

1990 "The Bedouin, the Nudists, and the Redemptive Fool: The Poetics of Military Occupation." Department of Anthropology, University of Washington, Seattle. 29 January.

1989 "East/West and the Construction of Gender Identity in Israel." A guest lecture at a U.C. Berkeley seminar on Southeast Asian Women. 7 March.

1988 "Sheikhs and Governors: Political Allegory of Bedouin Identity." Center for Middle East Studies, University of California at Los Angeles. 11 May.

1987 "Silence - Colonialism - Inscriptions of Bedouin Identity." The Arab-Jewish Research Center, Haifa University, Israel. 7 April.

1987 "Israeli Social Anthropology and its Bedouin Critique." Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem. 31 March.

1986 "The Palestinian Other in Israeli Cinema." The Santa Cruz Center for Nonviolence and the U. C. Santa Cruz Group for the Critical Study of Colonial Discourse. 20 October.

1986 "People and Places: Pictorial Representations of Israel and the Occupied Territories." The Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Washington, Seattle. 27 September.

1986 "Allegories of Fieldwork and the Experience of Occupation among the Mzeina Bedouin." Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem. 16 January.

1986 "Bedouin Tradition and The Poetics of Military Occupation." Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Tel Aviv University, Israel. 21 January.

1984 "Women and Madness in the Sinai Desert." Women's Center, Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, CA. 14 December.

1983 "Israeli Humor." Advanced Hebrew Seminar, Near Eastern Department, U. C. Berkeley. 6 October.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

2006-present Reviewer of manuscripts for Current Anthropology

2004-present The Coalition Against Apartheid in Israeli Anthropology (CAAIA). Founding member. Co-researcher and co-author of the coalition’s letter to Israel’s state comptroller; co-author of news updates; project’s liaison to foreign volunteers.

2004-present Reviewer of several manuscripts for the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

2003 Motion protesting the persecution of Arab scholars and pro-Arab US scholars in U.S. universities, co-authored with Lara Deeb and Jessica Winegar for the American Anthropological Association annual ballot.

2002 Consulting for CFD: The NGO for Women’s Empowerment, Zurich for their Early Childhood Project of the Negev Educational Association. June-September.

1994 Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Competition Judge for the Middle East Studies Association of America.

1993 Co-signatory to the Bellagio Declaration on Cultural and Intellectual Property in the PostColonial Era

1993 Reviewer for a Middle East ethnographic book proposal submitted to Harcourt Brace College Publishers

1993 Reviewer of a manuscript for International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies.

1993 Reviewer of a manuscript for Cultural Anthropology.

1992-3 Reviewer of several manuscripts for American Anthropologist

1992 Reviewer of a film proposal, "Islands in the Sand," for NEH.

1992-5 Reviewer for proposals submitted to the Wenner-Gren Anthropological Foundation.

1991-5 Reviewer of Middle East related book manuscripts for the University of Chicago and the University of Minnesota Presses.

1990- present Reviewer of numerous manuscripts for American Ethnologist.

PUBLIC SERVICE

Political, Feminist, Anti-Racist Activism

2003-Present Founding Member - The Coalition to Empower Children, Women and Families Facing the Courts, Welfare Services, and the Psychological-Psychiatric Establishment (This is a coalition of several NGOs.

From July 2005 on the coalition’s name changed to The Coalition of women for Mothers and Children

July 2005-Febraury 2006 – co-director of the coalition.

2002-Present Israel’s Women’s Parliament, Advisory Board Member.

2002-Present Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow, member.

2002-2004 Culture Committee

2002-2003 Committee on Education and the Core Curriculum

2005- Rainbow representative in the Coalition of NGOs Against Racism

2001-present Ahoti (Sistah, Heb)-For Women in Israel, Member. Ahoti is Israel’s feminist of color movement.

Jan 2003-Jan 2005 Board of Directors

English PR, establishing contact with supporters outside Israel;

Generating and sustaining activism related to understanding and exposing the power of the Ashkenazi academic and judicial elites;

Mizrahi women’s art and literature;

Liaison to the New Israel Fund (2002-2003);

Member of the editorial collective of the newsletter (2002-2003);

Liaison to FFIPP (2003-2004);

Co-coordinator (until September 2004) of the Coalition to End Apartheid in Israel’s Anthropology, initiated by Ahoti.

Feb-March 2003 – Worked with Rachel Amram on Ahoti’s major grant proposal from the New Israel Fund. The text serves as the basis for all of Ahoti’s grant applications

2002-2004 Black Lundary [Kvisah Sh’hora, Heb] – A LesBiGayTrans direct action group to resist Israel’s occupation of Palestine and Israel’s racism against minorities. Member.

1979-1998 SF Bay Area Palestine Human Rights Campaign

1991 Co-organizer of the SF Bay Area mass demonstrations against the Gulf War

1982-1989 Co-Founder and member of CAFIOT (the Berkeley Committee for Academic Freedom in the Israeli Occupied Territories).

Public and university teach in-s; student demonstrations; public lectures; canvassing; research and writing; Measure E 1982 city of Berkeley campaign of divesment from Israel (co-organized with Avi Chomsky, Jim Schamus, Mary Layoun, Osama Doumani, Jock Taft, and Raif Hijab); exposure of and media and public campaigns against the Jewish Anti Defamation League black lists of pro-Palestinian academics.

1982-3 Co-organized with Raif Hijab the first UCB student-initiated course on Modern Palestine; Fund solicitation from the UCB student union and the AAUJ to bring guest speakers such as Edward Said, Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, Hisham Sharabi and Israel Shahak. The course was one of the first academic-activist venues to discuss Israel’s anti-Mizrahi racism in the context of the Question of Palestine.

1982 "History of the Palestine/Israel Conflict." A summer-session student-initiated course team-taught with Raif Hijab, UCB graduate students and Berkeley community activists.

Government and Court

2005 Amir Peretz for Chairman of the Labor Party Campaign; on the difference between ethnic- and class-oriented approaches. Ramat Gan. 10 June.

2005 Israel’s Knesset’s International Women’s Day exhibit, “Women Return to the Front Stage,” consulting for `Amit Tzoref on deceased Palestinian and Mizrahi community activists to be included in the exhibit. February. Exhibit was on 8 March.

2003 “Single Mothers and the State Budget.” Knesset Committee on the Status of Women, session convened by KM Gila Gamliel. 7 July.

2003 “How Does Feminism of Color Relate to Israel?” 3 Lectures and discussion sessions with Israel’s government agencies’ future advisors on women’s status. 3 April, 10 July.

2002 Consulting for attorney Tamir Kokh, and writing an expert opinion on Parental Alienation Syndrome for Israel’s Supreme Court file 6041/02. Kokh won his case and set a precedent.

1994 Consulting for the Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board regarding the status of non-Jewish Russian immigrants to Israel.

Media

2006 “Mizrahi Professors? A Denied Problem.” Tamara Traubmann, Academic correspondent for Haaretz. 8 June.

2006 “Another Way to Fight the Academic Boycott? Israeli Studies Abroad: The faculty, Israeli, the Donors, Jewish.” Tamara Traubmann, Academic correspondent for Haaretz. Page A15. 24 May.

2006 “PAS, the Welfare Ministry, and Forced Removal of Minors from Protective Mother’s Custody.” Emanuel Rosen’s prime time TV show, Ze HaZman (It’s Timely, Heb.). Providing scholarly information and appearing on the show. TV Channel 10. 23 January.

2005 “A Yemenite in Tel Aviv.” IN Kaleidoskop: Israel and Palestine from the Inside. Sandra Petersen and Tonje Merete Viken, Eds., pp. 237-246. Oslo: Humanist Forlag (in Norwegian).

2005 “Mom Have Always Told Me: Why Aren’t You Like Everybody Else?” Orit Reuveni. End-of-Year Profile Article about Lavie’s biography, history of scholarship and activism. La’Isha (For Women, Heb.) no. 3063, pp. 28-41. 26 December.

2005 “The Crisis of Israeli Universities.” Panel Discussion participant for Israel’s prime-time Channel 1 TV show, Politika. 22 March.

2005 “Toni Morrison.” Conversation on her body of novels and their historical-cultural context Multi-Interview (with 3 other literary critics) led by Ya`el Zadok of Israel’s Broadcast Authority for her book review program, “Words that Try to Touch.” 18 March (repeated on 22 March).

2004 “Disconnected Until Further Notice.” Interview with Billy Moscone-Lerman on Parental Alienation Syndrome and Child Support Payments in Ma`ariv’s Weekly Magazine, 3 December, pp. 39-44.

2004 “Nepotism and Israel’s Political Culture.” Panel discussion participant for Israel’s prime-time Channel 1 TV show Politika. 7 September.

2004 Consulting for Arthur Neslen (UK) for Occupied Minds (Polity Press, 2006). July.

2004 “Testimony from the Field.” Interview with Lily `Aboudi on Ethnic Theater. Cities Weekly, 27 May, pp. 42-45.

2004 “Edward Said.” Interview with Ilana Norman. `Akhbar Ha`Ir Tel Aviv. 2 January.

2003 “Trash Science in the Service of Courts.” Interview with Tamara Traubmann on Family Courts and their Social Welfare Service Units. Haaretz, 15 August, P. B6

2003 “A Professor for Survival.” Interview with Moshe Ronen on Lavie’s participation in one of the American Anthropological Association presidential panels. Yedi`ot Aharonot, 2 June, P. B5.

2003 Advising to offer-writers to establish The Jewish Religion and Israeli Traditions Radio Station in central Israel. March.

2003 “Father or Mother.” Interview with Ayelet Kedem on Family Courts and Mysogeny. Makor Rishon Weekly. 14 March.

2003 “Israel’s Feminism of Color.” Interview with Prof. Kum-Kum Bhavnani (UCSB) for a film trailer at Jerusalem’s YMCA. 9 February.

2003 “Bedouin Gehtto.” Interview with Swiss DEV.TV on Israel’s colonialist nostalgia and the Negev and Sinai Bedouin. 10 January.

2002 “Search the Woman/Search the Mizrahi in Academe.” A 3-article segment of Israel’s Association for Feminist and Gender Studies Bulletin resulting from Lavie’s article about Academic Apartheid in Israel (see under Publications) and Moscone-Lerman’s Ma`ariv’s article (see below in this section). Heker Migdar BaAretz Nov-Dec, pp. 10-13.

2002 “The System’s Violence is Worse than the Battering Man.” Interview with Smadar Shiloni of Y-Net.

2002 “Gender, Ethnicity and Poverty.” Interview for the Cannel 1 Morning News. 5 November.

2002 “Racism in Israel’s Labor Market.” Participation in the Mizrahi TV channel Breeza’s People’s Parliament show. 23 July.

2002 “Parental Alienation Syndrome and Israel’s Family Courts.” Interview with Rivka Mikhaeli for her prime-time morning show. 18 July.

2002 “Maskit, the Next Generation.” Interview with Mor Gordon to Haaretz Daily on Ethiopean women artisans and cultural and intellectual property rights. 22 August.

2002 “Haim Hefer and the Mizrahim.” Panel discussion at Israel’s prime time TV show Politika emceed by Dan Margalit, 11 June.

2002 “Alternatives Are to be Found Here.” Op-Ed on solutions to the Intifada by Dana Peleg. Aat Women’s Monthly, June issue.

2002 “Ain’t It Important from What Ethnic Group you Are?” Interview with Karni `Am-`Ad about whether there ought to be a Mizrahi or Ashkenazi curator for the art exhibit Mothertongue. Hakibbutz, 30 May, p. 7.

2002 “Mizrahi Women Intellectuals.” Half-Hour interview with Sha’ul Bibi for Breeza Channel (filmed on 22 April, don’t remember the exact broadcast date).

2002 Consulting for the Breeza Mizrahi TV Channel on Mizrahi Women’s Profiles Show (re poet Amira Hess and community activist Mali Cohen). April.

2002 “Inaccurate Science.” Op-Ed by Dan Even on the Academic Boycott of Israel. Ma`ariv, 18 April.

2002 “The Judeo-Arabic Poetry of Rabbi Shalom Shabazi.” Interview with Michal Zu-Aretz for the Taverna, Israeli TV channel 1. 15 March.

2002 Billy Moscone-Lerman’s Women’s View (Mabat Nashi) TV show, Channel 2, Israel. A panel discussion with Dr. Vicky Shiran and Prof. Daphna Izraeli about the complete lack of Mizrahi women professors from the Israeli academic scene. 9 February.

2002 Radio of the South (Radio Darom) – Interview with Adi Nagar and Inbal Petel. Beer Sheba. February.

2002 “For You, A Mizrahi Woman’s Just a Maid.” Interview with Billy Moscone-Lerman, Ma`ariv Weekly Magazine, 1 February, pp. 56-62.

2002 “How a Wheel Turns Around: The Story of Smadar Lavie.” Interview with Sigal Levy, I-Women, 31 January.

2002 “Here’s a Professor Wrapped in a Newspaper.” Interview with Dekel Shahrour, Y-Net, 27 January.

2002 Yaron London’s Morning Show. Israeli TV, Channel 2. Interview on the total absence of Mizrahi women professors from Israeli academe. 22 January.

2002 “Is There, or Isn’t There Discrimination? Income Gaps Between Women, Arabs, and Mizrahim.” Interview with Gideon Eshet, Cheif Editor of Yedi`ot Aharonot’s Economics Section, 15 January, Money Section (Mamon), pp. 6-7.

2001 “The Industry of Parasites.” Research for Esther Hertzog’s op-ed on single mothers and the welfare authorities. Ma`ariv daily, 11 September.

2001 Consultant for artist Mario Rizzi on “The Gift,” an exchange of presents between randomly picked Palestinians and Israelis (December 2000-February 2001).

1996 "The New Racism: News from America." Interview with Anat Meidan, Yedi`ot Aharonot (Israel's daily newspaper with highest circulation), 15 May, pp.16-17.

1996 "Affirmative Action, Family Law, and the California Divorce Process." Interviews with Yossi Sayyas of Israel's Public Broadcasting Service, 2nd Channel, 8, 29 January.

1995 "Black and Beautiful." Interview with Shosh Madmoni on Political Correctness and the Absence of Mizrahi Women Intellectuals from Israeli Academia. Yedi`ot Aharonot (Israel's daily newspaper with highest circulation), 10 May, pp. 20-22.

1994 "Sell-Out Mizrahi and Highbrow Ashkenazi." Interview with Yizhar Hess for Shishi -- Musaf 7:13-15, 21 January (in Hebrew). The interview generated another article on racism against Arab-Jews in Israeli academia (Shishi 8:16) and several letters to the editor.

1993-4 Consultant for playwright Alan Havis for a play, "A Vow of Silence."

1993 "Dialoguing the Zone In-Between Darkness and Whiteness." Interview with Ya`el Ben-Zvi for KLAF Hazak 9:30-40 (in Hebrew).

1992 Copy editor for the English newsletter of Women's Organization for Political Prisoners, Tel Aviv (July - September).

1992 Consulting for Andrea Simon and David Olendorf of the New York Jewish Museum for a film on Sephardi intellectuals.

1992 "Stories Make the World." Participating in and consulting for A Traveling Jewish Theater audio program aired nationally on various stations of National Public Radio around Passover. It was broadcasted again around Passover, 1993.

1991 The Poetics of Military Occupation. Interview at the Sandra Gare Program, WBEZ Radio (local NPR station), Chicago.12 March.

1990 The Poetics of Military Occupation. Interview with Sedge Thompson on West Coast Weekend. KQED Radio (local NPR station) and the Life on the Water theater, San Francisco (9 February). The program was broadcasted nationally several times.

1983-8 The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival. Program Advisor.

1983 "Israeli Women." KPFA Radio, Berkeley, CA [produced by Rayna Cowan for International Women's Day].

1982 "The 'Peace Now' Movement and the Israeli Invasion to Lebanon." Chris Welsh Morning News, KPFA Radio, Berkeley, CA. 25 August.

1982 "The Israeli Right and the Invasion of Lebanon." Chris Welsh Morning News, KPFA Radio, Berkeley, CA. 9 June.

1981 "Feminism and Womanhood in Contemporary Music." Galei-Tzahal, Israel [co-produced with Ariel Cohen for Tziporei Laila, September].

1979 "Noble Nomads: The Mzeina of the South Sinai." Galei-Tzahal, Israel [co-produced with Ariel Cohen, August].

Lectures

2006 “The Forgotten Histories of Mizrahi Women in the Yishuv Era.” Mitzpe Ramon Women’s Committee. 1 August.

2006 “Islamist Feminism and Mizrahi Women’s Agency.” WIZO course for community women leaders. 27 June.

2006 “Ethnicity and Gender in Israel/Palestine: Transforming Discrimination into Peace Discourse.” Discussant, Sami Hallac, Torino’s Committee for Solidarity with the People of Palestine. Center for the Study of Peace, Turin. 4 May.

2006 “Interweaving Gender and Ethnic Identities into the Peace Future of the Middle East.” The Women’s Library. Milan. May 2.

2006 “Mizrahi Feminism, the Ashkenazi Left, and the Question of Palestine.” Mille Babords

médiathèque alternative. Marseille, 20 January.

2006 “PostColonial Africanism(s) and Mizrahi Identity.” Inaugural Evening for Eastbound (HaKivun Mizrah, Heb.) Literary Periodical. `Inbal Theater, Tel Aviv. January 1.

2005 “Parenthood, the Feminization of Poverty, and Joint Custody.” Women’s Parliament session on the Tender Years Doctrine. Tel Aviv. 7 November.

2005 “Palestinian and Mizrahi Feminism.” WIZO Women Leadership Group. Jerusalem. 28 June.

2005 “Black Feminism: 1960-1980.” Mazal Salon, Tel Aviv, 12 January.

2004 “On Cultural Identity as Property.” Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow Forum, Tel Aviv, 20 July

2003 “Racism and Multicultural Feminism in Israel.” WIZO course on Women’s Leadership, Jerusalem, 29 July.

2003 “Mizrahi and Palestinian Feminism.” NAAMAT, Rishon LeZion. 16 March.

2003 “Feminism, Mizrahi Feminism, and Me.” Beit Pinhas Yemeni Community Center, Sha`arayim, Rehovot. 1 February.

2003 “Women and Leadership.” Inaugurating lecture for the city of Nataniya Women and Leadership Forum. 6 January.

2002 “In Return For Our Taxes: Education, Equal Opportunities, and Multi Culturalism.” Women’s Parliament on Education and Social Change from a Feminist Perspective. Hertzeliyya. 4 July.

2002 “Mizrahi Feminism as Multiculturalizing Israel.” Shinui Weekend’s Retreat (2 March). REPEATED FOR Kol HaIsha, Jerusalem (7 March) and Isha LeIsha, Haifa (9 March) for International Women’s Day.

2001 “Dilemmas in Israeli Womanhood.” Giv`at Brenner Regional Highschool, 12^th Grade seminar, “Israeli Society: Processes of Fragmentation and Crystallization.” 3 December.

1996 "The History of Haifa." El Cerrito Tehiyah Dayschool 6th Grade. 6 February.

1995 "What can we learn from the Quran about Arab Culture." El Cerrito Tehiyah Dayschool 1st Grade. 17 November, 1 December.

1995 "Ramadan and the History of Islam." El Cerrito Tehiyah Dayschool kindergarten class. 1 March.

1993 "The Relevance of U.S. Feminist Theory of Color to Third World Israeli Feminist Mobilization." A Joint Meeting of the Tel Aviv Mizrahi Feminist Forum, Lesbian-Feminist Forum, and Women for Political Prisoners. 11 July.

1992 "The Role of the Bedouin in Israel's Colonialist Imagery." Morning Forum of Palo Alto. 21 January.

1988 "Of Dresses, Hebrew, Arabic, and Death: Israeli Women, 1988." World Affairs Council of Northern California, San Francisco. 24 August.

1988 "Judaism, Zionism, and the Land of Israel: A different Voice." Presbyterian Church of Pleasenton-Livermore, CA. 14 February.

1987 "Roadblocks to Communication: Cultural Critique of the Palestinian-Israeli Dialogue." Mubarak Awad's Palestinian Center for the Study of Nonviolence, Jerusalem.6 April.

1987 "Critique of Arab-Jewish and Jewish-Christian-Muslim Dialogue." Breaking the Silence '87: A Conference on Middle East Peace; Berkeley, CA. 24 January.

1984 "The Politics of Sabbath in Israel." San Francisco Jewish Community Center. 7 December.

1984 "Ethnic Realities in Israel." Berkeley/Richmond Jewish Community Center, CA. 25 November.

1983 "Camp David and Subsequent Events -- An Anthropological Perspective." El Cerrito High School, CA. 21 March.

Workshops and Conferences

2006 “Cultural Rights and Israeli Anthropology.” This was a lecture given in a 3-speakers Midrash Keshet (a bi-weekly Midrash gathering at the offices of the Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow) co-organized with Rafi Shubeli on the campaign of the Coalition Against Apartheid in Israeli Anthropology. Other speakers included Shubeli and Toine Van Teefelen from the Institute for Arab Education of Bethlehem. 27 April.

2005 “The Race Factor in the Palestinian and Mizrahi Feminist Struggles.” Coalition of NGOs Against Racism workshop. Neve Shalom-Wahat as-Salam. 3 August.

2005 “Franz Fanon: Black Skin White Masks.” Co-presenter at an evening inaugurating the book’s Hebrew translation. Salon Mazal, Tel Aviv, 26 January.

2004 “Women and Children’s Rights in Family Court.” Co-organized with Smadar Ben Natan for the Women Statues Legislative Committee. Israel’s BAR association. 17 March.

2003 “The Feminization of Poverty.” A workshop as part of an Ahoti Council Meeting, Women, Work, and Education.” Tel Aviv. 19 June.

2003 “Gender, Racism and Unemployment.” A lecture in panel on the globalization of Israel’s economy at the Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow council meeting. 14 February.

2003 “Revising Youth Law – Treatment and Protection.” Musrara Community Center, Jerusalem. Organized by LSW Shim`on Tajouri. 25 March.

2002 “The Color and Race of Money/Power.” Ahoti Council Meeting. Tel Aviv. 10 December.

2002 “Frantz Fanon: Between the Black Skin and the White Mask.” Part of a Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow literary evening on Fanon organized by Yardena Alon at Mazal Salon. 31 October.

2002 “Mizrahi Resistance and the Feminist of Color Plight.” Panel as part of a Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow Weekend Conference on the Future of Mizrahi Struggle in Israel. Beit Berl Levinson Center, 14-15 June.

2001 “Lesbian Literature in Hebrew and Hebrew-Translation.” Reading workshop co-organized with Erella Shadmi. KLAF House Tel Aviv, and Kol HaIsha, Jerusalem. Spring Semester.

1991 "The Middle East After the Gulf War." Instructors' Enrichment Day, Santa Rosa Community College 17 April.

1986 "Israeli Perspectives." World Affairs Council of Northern California and the University of California at Berkeley. 19 April.

1985 "Teaching the Middle East." Berryessa United School District, San Jose, CA. 16 March.

1985 "Middle East Cultures, Religions and Languages." Unified School District, San Mateo, CA. 29 February.

1980 "Demystifying the Middle East." World Affairs Council of Northern California, San Francisco. 17 May.

Other

2003 Nomination Committee for the Unknown Peace Worker Re Erella Shadmi. Die Schwelle, Germany.

2003 Families of Infants in Captivity Marching on Jerusalem – co-organized an 11 family march to protest the Welfare Ministry policies of removal of children from Mizrahi and Russian immigrant families to forced boarding. March was on 20-22 July.

2002 Co-Organized with Shlomit Bitan (CNP) a support process group for divorcing mothers to help deal with family court PAS afflictions. The group has developed into a country-wide network of women helping other women to try fend off the PAS atrocities of family courts, custody evaluators, LSWs, therapists etc.

2002 Co-Organized with Lizzy Eliazarov of the Sderot branch of Yedid NGO a Catering Co-Op for Central Asian Women. Inaugurated on 23 February.

2002 Co-authored with Gali Gold of the Jerusalem Cinemateque a proposal and program for a Queer of Color Film Festival (May-June). Proposal was not funded.

HONORS

1990 Honorable Mention, Victor Turner Award for Ethnographic Writing.

1989 Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award in Humanities, the Middle East Studies Association of North America.

1988 Second Prize, Paper Competition, U.S. Western Social Science Association: "When Leadership Becomes Allegory: Mzeina Sheikhs and the Experience of Occupation."

1979 Yitzhaki Netzer Prize for Excellence in Bedouin Studies, The Ben-Gurion Desert Research Institute, Sde-Bokker, Israel.

1979 Second Best Documentary Radio Program of the Year, "Noble Nomads: The Mzeina of South Sinai." Galei Tzahal, Israel [co- produced with Ariel Cohen].

UNIVERSITY AND DEPARTMENT SERVICE

2002 Consulted for proposal writing for the Beit Berl Multicultural Faculty Team for seed money in order to revise the college’s curriculum so that it reflects the ethnic and religious shifts in the students’ body (January).

1999-2000 (1) Wrote a 200 pp. proposal (including syllabi editing) to design and build a Department of Cultural Studies at Sapir College of the Negev. Proposal was submitted in March 2000 to Israel’s Council for Higher Education. (2) Organized Media School Weekly Colloquium for job talks of possible FTE candidates for the Cultural Studies Department in Spring 2000.

1996-7 Application Review of U.C. Davis Education Abroad Program, interview of three candidates, write up of evaluations.

1995 Organized a lecture tour of Bay Area Universities for Nira Yuval-Davis, to give talks on Gender, Citizenship, and Trans-Racial Coalitions in early 1995.

1995 Wrote a proposal for the UCD Anthropology Department in order to purchase the film "Joanna D'Arc of Mongolia."

1994 Organized and hosted a talk and poetry reading, "The Poetics of Peace," by Na`im `Araidi and Mira Meir for the UCD Critical Theory Program (4 Oct.)

1993 Wrote a proposal for the UCD Critical Theory Annual 1994 conference, "Language, Race, Nation." Proposal was approved and will be fully funded.

1993 Co-organizer, UCD Critical Theory Annual Conference on Education and the Nation-State (participants include Concia Delgado, Shlomo Swirski, Salim Tamari, Hayden White, and others). 26-27 February.

1993 Put together a UCD proposal to appoint Paul Gilroy and Vron Ware as the Spring 1994 Regents Professors. The proposal included letters by members of the following departments: Anthropology, History, African-American Studies, Chicano/a Studies, Philosophy, Critical Theory, and Women Studies. The proposal was approved on April.

1993-8 Member, UCD Education Abroad Program Committee, Academic Senate

1991-2 Co-organizer, Nationalism Reading/Discussion Group, Center for Comparative Research in History, Culture, and Society, UCD (with Dan Brower of the History Department). Among the guests hosted were Paul Gilroy, Dorinne Kondo, and Brakette Williams.

1991-9 Member, Program Committee for Critical Theory, UCDs.

1990-3 Library Representative, Department of Anthropology, UC D.

U. C. DAVIS TALKS

1993 "Silenced from All Directions: Third World Israeli Women Writing in the Race/Gender Borderzone." Gender and Global Issues Group, workshop on "Arab Family Dynamics." (22 April).

1993 "Beyond the Boundary of Culture." Department of Anthropology Colloquium, U.C. Davis (8 February).

1992 "The Poetics of Military Occupation." Guest Lecture in Kathy Kudlic Class, Department of History (30 November).

1992 "Encountering Space: Identity and Place in the Human Sciences." Symposium Discussant. Annual Critical Theory Conference. 24-25 April.

1992 "Third World Israeli Authors' Gropings for Home." Humanities Institute, University of California at Davis (11 February).

1991 Participant in a panel organized by Janet Smith on the "Ethnography of Speaking" for Anthro. 117 (10 April).

1991 "Ethnographic Creativity and the Discourse of Subalternity." Center for Comparative Research in History, Culture, and Society (13 March).

1990 "The Crisis of Ethnographic Representation." Guest Lecture in David Boyd Class (20 November).

1989 "Development as Allegory: Israeli and Egyptian Policies for the South Sinai Bedouin." Department of Anthropology (5 December).

1985 "Deconstruction/Reconstruction Processes of Jewish Ethnicity In Israel." Anthropology of the Middle East Seminar, Department of Anthropology (29 May).

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

I’ve been member in these societies since the mid 1980s until my arrival to Israel in 1999.

· American Anthropological Association

· American Ethnological Society

· American Research Center in Egypt

· Association for Israel Studies

· Middle East Studies Association of the United States

· Modern Language Association of America

· Society for Critical Exchange

· Society for Cultural Anthropology

· Society for Feminist Anthropology

· Society for Humanistic Anthropology

· Society for the Study of Narrative Literature

8 August 2006