Lila Abu-Lughod

Lila Abu-Lughod is a Palestinian-American professor of Anthropology and Women's and Gender Studies at Columbia University in New York City. She is the daughter of prominent academics Janet and Ibrahim Abu-Lughod.

Abu-Lughod earned her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1984. She is known for her research on Bedouin from the Awlad 'Ali tribe in Egypt. Previously, Abu-Lughod taught at Williams College, Princeton University and New York University.

She was named a 2007 Carnegie Scholar to research the topic: "Do Muslim Women Have Rights? The Ethics and Politics of Muslim Women's Rights in an International Field."

Abu-Lughod is married to Columbia University professor of Middle Eastern politics Timothy Mitchell. [ New Columbia Hire Backed Academic Boycott of Israel, By BARI WEISS, New York Sun, September 12, 2008 [http://www.nysun.com/new-york/new-columbia-hire-backed-academic-boycott/85740/] ]

Abu-Lughod's father was Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, the man to whom Edward Said dedicated his book Orientalism.

In 2001, Abu-Lughod delivered the Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture at the University of Rochester, considered by many to be the most important annual lecture series in the field of Anthropology. [http://www.thecrimson.com/printerfriendly.aspx?ref=524051]

Political activity

Abu-Lughod supports an academic boycott of Israel. [ New Columbia Hire Backed Academic Boycott of Israel, By BARI WEISS, New York Sun, September 12, 2008 [http://www.nysun.com/new-york/new-columbia-hire-backed-academic-boycott/85740/] ]

Publications

* "Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory" with Ahmad H. Sa'di, (Columbia University Press 2007) ISBN 978-0231135788
* "Local Contexts of Islamism in Popular Media" (Amsterdam University Press 2007) ISBN 978-9053568248
* "Dramas of Nationhood: The Politics of Television in Egypt" (University of Chicago Press 2004) ISBN 978-0226001975
* "Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain" (Editor) (University of California Press 2002) ISBN 978-0520232310
* "Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society" (University of California Press 2000) ISBN 978-0520224735
* "Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East" (Editor) (Princeton University Press 1998) ISBN 978-0691057927
* "Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories" (University of California Press 1993) ISBN 978-0520083042

Article

*Lila Abu Lughod: [http://www.jerusalemquarterly.org/details.php?cat=1&id=113 My Father's Return to Palestine] Winter-Spring 2001, Issue 11-12 Jerusalem Quarterly (Accessed 28 Jan. 2008)

External links

* [http://imeu.net/news/article005239.shtml Profile of Lila Abu-Lughod at the Institute for Middle East Understanding]
* [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/anthropology/fac-bios/abu-lughod/faculty.html Columbia University Department of Anthropology Faculty]

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