Lila Abu-Lughod

Lila Abu-Lughod is an American professor of anthropology and Women's and Gender Studies at Columbia University in New York, daughter of prominent Palestinian academic Ibrahim Abu-Lughod and the American sociologist Janet Lippman.

She graduated from Carleton College in 1974, and obtained her PhD from Harvard University in 1984. She is married to Columbia University professor of Middle Eastern politics Timothy Mitchell.^[1]

Abu-Lughod has taught at Williams College, Princeton University, and New York University, and has become known for her research on the Bedouin from the Awlad 'Ali tribe in Egypt.

In 2001, she 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.^[2] She was named a Carnegie Scholar in 2007 to research the topic: "Do Muslim Women Have Rights? The Ethics and Politics of Muslim Women's Rights in an International Field." She supports an academic boycott of Israel.^[1]

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

Notes

^ ^a ^b Weiss, Bari. New Columbia Hire Backed Academic Boycott of Israel, New York Sun, September 12, 2008 [/]
^ http://www.thecrimson.com/printerfriendly.aspx?ref=524051

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