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Lila Abu-Lughod

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Lila Abu-Lughod 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.

Books

Do Muslim Women Need Saving?
Do Muslim Women Need Saving?
Lila Abu-Lughod
Nakba
Nakba
Lila Abu-Lughod, Ahmad H. Sa'di
Veiled Sentiments
Veiled Sentiments
Lila Abu-Lughod
Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East
Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East
Lila Abu-Lughod
Writing Women's Worlds
Writing Women's Worlds
Lila Abu-Lughod
Language and the Politics of Emotion
Language and the Politics of Emotion
Lila Abu-Lughod, Catherine A. Lutz
Do Muslim Women Need Saving?
Do Muslim Women Need Saving?
Lila Abu-Lughod
Writing Women's Worlds
Writing Women's Worlds
Lila Abu-Lughod
Lila Abu-Lughod, Donna Lee Bowen, Evelyn A. Early, Becky Schulthies, Momina Zakzouk
Everyday Life in the Muslim Middle East, Third Edition
Everyday Life in the Muslim Middle East, Third Edition
Lila Abu-Lughod, Donna Lee Bowen, Evelyn A. Early, Becky Schulthies, Momina Zakzouk
Local Contexts of Islamism in Popular Media
Local Contexts of Islamism in Popular Media
Lila Abu-Lughod
Dramas of Nationhood
Dramas of Nationhood
Lila Abu-Lughod
Writing Women's Worlds
Writing Women's Worlds
Lila Abu-Lughod
Antropología y feminismo
Antropología y feminismo
Lila Abu-Lughod, Alhena Caicedo, Mara Viveros Vigoya, Diana Gómez Correal, Diana Ojeda
Media Worlds
Media Worlds
Lila Abu-Lughod, Brian Larkin, Faye D. Ginsburg

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