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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Focusing here on stories of individual women, Columbia University social scientist Abu-Lughod (Veiled Sentiments) deconstructs the idea of saving oppressed Muslim women and takes a sobering look ...

But the impacts of these efforts are more complex than they might appear. Lila Abu Lughod’s provocative recent book, “Do Muslim Women Need Saving?” challenges what she refers to as a Western ...

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 ...

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 ...