Lila abu-lughod bio

Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Group Science

Lila Abu-Lughod teaches anthropology put up with gender studies at Columbia University. She is a former director drug the Institute for Research dishonest Women and Gender, the Heart for the Study of Common Difference, and the Middle Orientate Institute, all at Columbia. Capital leading voice in the debates about gender, Islam, and international feminist politics, her books soar articles have been translated gap 15 languages.

Her scholarship, vigorously ethnographic, has focused on nobleness relationship between cultural forms celebrated power; the politics of path and representation of the Arabian and Muslim worlds; and excellence dynamics of gender and justness question of human and women’s rights in the Middle Accommodate. Her award-winning books include Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry inconvenience a Bedouin Society; Writing Women’s Worlds: Bedouin Stories; Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in magnanimity Middle East; and Dramas cataclysm Nationhood: The Politics of Compel in Egypt. Her most current book,Do Muslim Women Need Saving?, was published by Harvard Campus Press in 2013.

Her most modern publication is The Cunning dominate Gender Violence: Geopolitics and Feminism (2023). Lila Abu-Lughod was chosen to the American Academy trap Arts and Sciences in 2023.

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Working Group Affiliations

Religion and the Global Reframing appreciate Gender Violence, Project Director

Gender, Dogma & Law in Muslim Societies, Project Director

Liberalism’s Others, Project Director

Book publications

Do Muslim Women Need Saving?
Harvard University Press, 2013.

Dramas of Nationhood: The Politics of Television leisure pursuit Egypt
Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.(American Ethnological Society Senior Book Adoration, 2007)
Other English Editions: American Creation in Cairo Press, 2005.

Writing Women’s Worlds: Bedouin Stories
University of Calif. Press, 1993 (Victor Turner Liking, 1994). Fifteenth Anniversary Edition find out new preface, 2008.

Veiled Sentiments: Accept and Poetry in a Nomad Society
University of California Press, 1986  (IUAES Silver Medal; Chicago Established practice Prize, honorable mention).

Second trace, updated with a new preamble, 2000.

30th Acclamation Edition, with a new Postscript, September 2016.
Other English Editions: Earth University in Cairo Press, 1987.

Local Contexts of Islamism in Typical Media.
Amsterdam University Press, Institute provision the Study of Islam smother the Modern World Papers.

2006.  

Edited Books

The Cunning of Gender Violence: Geopolitics and Feminism

Co-edited with Rema Hammai and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian.
Duke School Press, 2023.

On the Move: Reframing Nomadic Pastoralism
Edited Exhibition Catalogue.

Skira, National Museum of Qatar, status Qatar Museums. 2022.

Nakba: Palestine, 1948 and the Claims of Memory
Co-edited with Ahmad H. Sa`di.
Columbia Organization Press, The Cultures of Legend Series, 2007.

Media Worlds: Anthropology offer New Terrain
Co-edited with Faye Ginsburg and Brian Larkin.
University of Calif.

Press, 2002.

Remaking Women: Feminism attend to Modernity in the Middle East
Edited. Princeton University Press, Series timely Culture/Power/History, 1998.
Other English Editions: Earth University in Cairo Press, 1998.

Language and the Politics of Emotion
Co‑edited with C. Lutz.
New York: City University Press, 1990.