Gendered cartographies of knowledge : area studies, ethnic studies, and postcolonial studies -- Gender and the culture of empire : toward a feminist ethnography of the cinema -- Sacred word, profane image : theologies of adaptation -- The cinema after Babel: language, difference, power (with Robert Stam) -- "Lasers for ladies" : endo discourse and the inscriptions of science -- Disorienting Cleopatra : a modern trope of identity -- Taboo memories, diasporic visions : Columbus, Palestine, and Arab-Jews -- Notes on the "post-colonial" -- Post-Fanon and the colonial : a situational diagnosis -- Post/third worldist culture : gender, nation, and the cinema

Rupture and return : Zionist discourse and the study of Arab-Jews -- The "postcolonial" in translation : reading Edward Said between English and Hebrew.