Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff (Hebrew: ז'קלין כהנוב; Arabic: جاكلين شوحيط; May 18, 1917 – October 24, 1979) was an Egyptian-born Israeli novelist, essayist and journalist.
Kahanoff wrote in English, although she is best known for a cycle of essays, “A Generation of Levantines,” that was published in Israel in Hebrew translation in 1959.
These pieces lay out her notion of “Levantinism,” a social model of coexistence drawn from her childhood experiences in Egyptian cosmopolitan society in the interwar period.
Near the end of her life, Amir also edited a collection of her most influential essays published under the title Mi mizrah shemesh (From East the Sun, 1978).
[13] The text of Kahanoff's "Europe from Afar" is also the basis for the video art piece of the same title by Eva Meyer and Eran Schaerf (2001).