Ariella Aïsha Azoulay is a filmmaker, curator, and Professor of Comparative Literature and Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. Her books include Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism (Verso, 2019); Civil Imagination: The Political Ontology of Photography (Verso, 2012); From Palestine to Israel: A Photographic Record of Destruction and State Formation, 1947–1950 (Pluto Press, 2011); and co-authored with Adi Ophir, The One State Condition: Occupation and Democracy between the Sea and the River (Stanford, 2012).