Leave, Leave, Come, Come: Arabesk Music, Mizrahi Music, and the “There” of the Orient
Mostly, we were here. It was only on rare occasion that we went “there.” A thirty-minute drive from our Tel-Aviv home heading south, and “there” we...
Shirly Bahar is working on a book based on her dissertation, Reliving Pain, Living On: Performance, Affect, and the Body in Documentary Cinema from Israel/Palestine 2002-2012, written at NYU’s Hebrew and Judaic Studies Department under Ella Shohat’s supervision. Shirly’s review article “Restrictions Apply: Agency, Affect and Reenactment in Einat Amir’s Performance and Video Installation Our Best Intentions” was published in Third Text (August 2015), and her full-length article “Coming Out as Queen: Queer Studies, Jewish Identity, and the Book of Esther” was published in Studies in Gender and Sexuality Journal (September 2012).