Lila Abu-Lughod(Is this your profile?)

Lila Abu-Lughod (Arabic: ليلى أبو لغد) (born 1952) is a Palestinian-American anthropologist. She is the Joseph L. Buttenweiser Professor of Social Science in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University in New York City. She 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. Early life and education Abu-Lughod's father was the prominent Palestinian ...