27 Facts About Lila Abu-Lughod

Lila Abu-Lughod was born on 1952 and is an American anthropologist.

Lila Abu-Lughod is the Joseph L Buttenweiser Professor of Social Science in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University in New York City.

Lila Abu-Lughod specializes in ethnographic research in the Arab world, and her seven books cover topics including sentiment and poetry, nationalism and media, gender politics and the politics of memory.

Lila Abu-Lughod was born on October, 21st, 1952, in Champaign, Illinois, USA, where her father, Ibrahim Abu-Lughod undertook his BA at University of Illinois.

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod was a prominent Arab-Palestinian academic, who was well-known for his academic work and activisim on Palestine.

Lila Abu-Lughod's mother, Janet L Abu-Lughod, nee Lippman, was a leading Jewish American urban sociologist.

Lila Abu-Lughod went to New Trier High School and graduated in 1970.

Lila Abu-Lughod went on to study at Carleton College in 1974, graduating with a Distinction in Social Anthropology.

Lila Abu-Lughod obtained her MA in 1978 and her PhD in Social Anthropology in 1984, both from Harvard University.

Lila Abu-Lughod is especially concerned with the intersections of culture and power, as well as gender and women's rights in the Middle East.

Between the late 1970s and the mid-1980s, while still a graduate student, Lila Abu-Lughod spent time living with the Bedouin Awlad 'Ali tribe in Egypt.

Lila Abu-Lughod stayed with the head of the community, and lived in his household alongside his large family for a cumulative two years.

Lila Abu-Lughod explores the way that ghinnawas, songs in a poetic form that she compares to haiku and the blues, express the cultural "patterning" of the society, especially with regard to the relations between women and men.

In 1990, Lila Abu-Lughod served as the assistant professor of religion and associated faculty for the Department of Anthropology at Princeton University.

Lila Abu-Lughod started her teaching career at Williams College as an assistant professor, for the Department of Anthropology and Sociology.

Lila Abu-Lughod spent time as a scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study, with Judith Butler, Evelyn Fox Keller, and Donna Haraway.

Lila Abu-Lughod taught at New York University, where she worked on a project, funded by a Ford Foundation grant, intended to promote a more international focus in women's studies.

Lila Abu-Lughod serves on the advisory boards of multiple academic journals, including Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society and Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies.

Lila Abu-Lughod's work has contributed in various ways to the thought and knowledge produced around gender studies.

Lila Abu-Lughod further explains how the narrative of saving Muslim women has been used as a way to justify military interventions in Muslim countries.

Lila Abu-Lughod argues that Muslim women, like women of other faiths and backgrounds, need to be viewed within their own historical, social, and ideological contexts.

Lila Abu-Lughod's book argues against grouping Muslim women under one umbrella or set of characteristics.

Lila Abu-Lughod argues that generalising gender violence, as well as codifying it in institutions and NGO's would dismiss the specifity of how each culture and community would consider violence to be.

Lila Abu-Lughod coined the term "securofeminists" to refer to a group of feminists who in trying to achieve feminists goals using security measures.

In 2023, Lila Abu-Lughod has contributed to the world of Museums and exhibitions, by working closely with the National Museum of Qatar on an exhibition titled On the Move.

Lila Abu-Lughod is a supporter of the Boycott Divestment Sanctions movement.

Lila Abu-Lughod wrote an article for Anthropology News and that was reposted in March 2016 by Anthroboycott, about her stance on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, where she responds and contributes to the call for academics and researchers to boycott Israeli academic institutions.