Ariella Azoulay

Ariella Azoulay (Hebrew: אריאלה אזולאי‎‎; born Tel Aviv, 1962)^[1] is an author, art curator, filmmaker, and theorist of photography and visual culture.

Life

Azoulay has degrees from Université Paris VIII, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and Tel Aviv University.^[2] In 1999 she began teaching at Bar-Ilan University. In 2010 Azoulay was denied tenure at Bar-Ilan, a move regarded by some colleagues and commentators as politically motivated.^[3] In 2010 she was the Gladstein Visiting Professor at the Human Rights Center of the University of Connecticut. In 2011 she was Leverhulme Research Professor at Durham University, and she is currently Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Modern Culture and Media at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies.^[2]

Her partner, with whom she has also co-authored written work, is the philosopher Adi Ophir.

The following is available in English translation:

Death's Showcase: the power of image in contemporary democracy, 2001
The Civil Contract of Photography, Zone Books, 2008
From Palestine to Israel: A Photographic Record of Destruction and State Formation, 1947-1950, Pluto Press, 2011
Civil Imagination: The Political Ontology of Photography, 2011
(with Adi Ophir) This Regime Which Is Not One: Occupation and Democracy between the Sea and The River (1967 - ), Stanford University Press, 2011
(with Adi Ophir) The One-State Condition: Occupation and Democracy in Israel/Palestine, Stanford University Press, forthcoming
Different ways not to say deportation, Fillip Editions/Artspeak, 2013

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