Lila abu lughod biography of donald
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Born to well-known academics Ibrahim and Janet Abu-Lughod, Lila Abu-Lughod grew up in aacademic orientated household. Her mother, a distinguished American Sociologist, and father, a renowned Palestinian/American Political Scientist, initiated a tradition of recognized academic work. Abu-Lughod earned her undergraduate degree from Carleton College, masters from (BLANK-need to find), and Ph. D from Harvard University in Mumnmn of her workin the field of Anthropology, including three of her most well-known publications, is related to her ethnography among the Awlad ‘Ali Bedouin. Lila Abu-Lughod is currently a professor of Anthropology and Women Studies at Columbia University in New York. She has previously taught at Williams College, Princeton, and New York University. Lila Abu-Lughod delivered the Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures at the University of Rochester in October of based upon the work she published in Dramas of Nationhood (see and ]).
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Lila Abu-Lughod | Ten questions about anthropology, feminism, Middle East politics, and publics
Sindre Bangstad (KIFO, the Institute for Church, Religion, and Worldview Research, Oslo) interviews Lila Abu-Lughod (Columbia University)
On the occasion of the publication of Columbia University anthropologist Lila Abu-Lughod’s article, “The cross-publics of ethnography: the case of the Muslim woman,” in the November issue of the journal, we have invited Norwegian anthropologist Sindre Bangstad to interview Abu-Lughod on fundamental issues underlying her work as a feminist anthropologist, a public intellectual, and an ethnographer of the Middle East and Islamophobia. This year also marks the 30th anniversary of the publication of Abu-Lughod’s landmark ethnography Veiled Sentiments, which has inspired an entire generation of scholars and students to rethink their understanding of gender, power, and poetics. I thank Lila and Sindre for sharing their conversation with the readership • Lila Abu-Lughod received her Ph.D. from Harvard, has taught at Williams, Princeton, and NYU, and now boasts the title of Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University, where she teaches antropologi and Women’s Studies and is considered an specialist on the Arab world. Born and raised in the United States, she’s the daughter of Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, whose buddy Edward Said once described him as “Palestine’s foremost academic and intellectual.” She’s also the author of a book, Do Muslim Women Need Saving?, which was published gods year bygd Harvard University Press, and which inom first became aware of via an excerpt in the Daily Beast and a del av helhet by Abu-Lughod, also entitled “Do Muslim Women Need Saving?”, that appeared in Time Magazine. The thrust of both these articles is that we in the West who think Muslim women are oppressed have been misinformed. Yes, Abu-Lughod acknowledges, Islamic culture has it
Saving Islam from Its Victims [incl. Lila Abu-Lughod]