SPIEGEL Interview with Lila Abu-Lughod 'Any Solution Will Have to Involve More Creative Thinking' While Israelis celebrate the 60th anniversary of their state's founding, Palestinians around the ...

Early on in the anthropology book Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society, the author, Lila Abu-Lughod, admits that she came to be embedded in an Awlad 'Ali Bedouin family only ...

Lila Abu-Lughod, Joseph L. Buttenweiser Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University, will deliver the 2015 Distinguished Lecture in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Colorado Boulder ...

Lila Abu-Lughod has worked on women's issues in the Middle East for over twenty years. She has authored and edited several books on the topic, including Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories ...

This is the question author Lila Abu-Lughod poses in her book exploring the lives of Muslim women. The answer isn’t as obvious as some would like us to believe. Do Muslim women need saving? This is ...

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, 72, a professor and vice president at Birzeit University on the West Bank of Israel, died May 23 at his home in Ramallah. A former head of the political science department at ...

In her book Do Muslim Women Need Saving?, the Palestinian-American scholar Lila Abu Lughod condemns this western mindset. She maintains it has justified all kinds of western interference in the Ar ...

While attending the University of Oklahoma in 1956 – 57, I met a Palestinian petroleum engineering student named Said Abu-Lughod. Said, whose older brother Ibrahim Abu-Lughod would become a ...

The contributors are an academic who’s who and include the anthropologists Lila Abu-Lughod and Nicholas Dirks; Omer Bartov, a leading authority on the Holocaust and genocide; the cultural critics and ...

This Western “rescue” fantasy and the would-be saviors it creates were duly debunked by the Columbia professor Lila Abu-Lughod in her book “Do Muslim Women Need Saving?” But while Abu ...