Ariella Aïsha Azoulay

Ariella Azoulay is an author, art curator, filmmaker, and theorist of photography and visual culture. She is Professor of Modern Culture and Media in the Department of Comparative Literature at Brown University. Her latest book is Potential History—Unlearning Imperialism (Verso, 2019).

Unlearning Our Settler Colonial Tongues

On language and belonging.

Ariella Aïsha Azoulay

The Captive Photograph

Images seized from enslaved people are not private property to be owned, but ancestors to be cared for.

Ariella Aïsha Azoulay

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Algerian Jews Have Not Forgotten France’s Colonial Crimes

A recent report neglects to mention how France forced Arab Jews to adopt the European persona of Jew as citizen and see Arabs and Muslims as others.

Ariella Aïsha Azoulay