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WAMU 88.5
January 12, 2018
There's Lila Abu-Lughod, a Palestinian-American academic who uses her research to fight the stereotype that Muslim women are victims. There's Ching Kwan Lee, the Hong Kong-born sociologist who exposed the poverty of the Chinese working class. And there's Bina Agarwal, the prize-winning IndianÃÂ ...
The Guardian
December 3, 2017
We reject the malicious and unfounded allegations made against Dr Maha Abdelrahman in Italy's La Repubblica newspaper on 2 November 2017. Dr Abdelrahman is an internationally renowned scholar at Cambridge University. She supervised Giulio Regeni, an Italian PhD student researching EgyptianÃÂ ...
The Daily Freeman
September 21, 2017
POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. >> Lila Abu-Lughod will give the Vassar College Religion Department's 2017 Frederic C. Wood Lecture, titled “Framing Islam: 'Violent Extremism' and the Rise of Securofeminism,” at 5:30 p.m. Oct. 3 in Room 203 of Taylor Hall on the campus, 124 Raymond Ave. The event is free andÃÂ ...
Santa Fe New Mexican
May 25, 2017
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 through the assistance of her Jordanian father. This fact made her feel "distinctly unlike an anthropologist.
Patheos (blog)
January 20, 2014
With this background and mindset I started reading Do Muslim Women Need Saving? by Lila Abu-Lughod. I must say that the book resonated a lot with me, not only as a self-identified Muslim woman, but as a Third World woman with indigenous background. Abu-Lughod goes to great lengths to discussÃÂ ...
New York Times (blog)
December 23, 2013
Lila Abu-Lughod discusses her latest book, and the gap between what she learned in her anthropological work and the rhetoric surrounding the U.S. war in Afghanistan. By Sofia Perpetua on Publish Date December 23, 2013. embed. In “The Read Around,” a weekly video feature, authors discuss the when,ÃÂ ...
The National
November 29, 2013
I worry that Muslim women are being used as pawns in dangerous imperial political ventures, in internal power plays within various nations and in racist anti-immigrant politics in Europe, the very setting of the Femen topless jihad against Islamism. Lila Abu-Lughod is professor of anthropology and women'sÃÂ ...
TIME
November 1, 2013
A moral crusade to rescue oppressed Muslim women from their cultures and their religion has swept the public sphere, dissolving distinctions between conservatives and liberals, sexists and feminists. The crusade has justified all manner of intervention from the legal to the military, the humanitarian to theÃÂ ...
Spiegel Online
May 18, 2008
Lila Abu-Lughod: Only my father was Palestinian, but for both my parents the political injustice of the situation was clear. Every child of a Palestinian refugee feels the burden of the events of 1948, not just through what a parent or grandparent might tell her or through sensing their hollow feeling of exile, butÃÂ ...
Jordan Times
September 16, 2017
... Centres (CGC) in Amman, by noted Anthropologist Lila Abu Lughod who presented a “new way to think about the choice of Muslim women”.
The Statesman
September 10, 2017
Lila Abu-Lughod's book, Do Muslim Women Need Saving?— a critique of the Western political impulse to swoop down and rescue theÃÂ ...
DAWN.com (blog)
September 3, 2017
Lila Abu-Lughod's book, Do Muslim Women Need Saving? -- a critique of the Western political impulse to swoop down and rescue theÃÂ ...
The National
August 24, 2017
Written by figures such as the Jerusalem-born artist Kamal Boullata and Palestinian-American academic Lila Abu-Lughod, the essays includeÃÂ ...
Scroll.in
August 23, 2017
Lila Abu-Lughod's book, Do Muslim Women Need Saving?, a critique of the Western political impulse to swoop down and rescue theÃÂ ...
Middle East Eye
August 18, 2017
What Columbia University anthropology and women's and gender studies professor Lila Abu Lughod describes as “the new common sense” ofÃÂ ...
Mada Masr
June 20, 2017
... of orientalism,” and employ the idea put forth by anthropologist Lila Abu Lughod, who has written extensively on Egypt and Egyptian women,ÃÂ ...
Santa Fe New Mexican
May 25, 2017
Early on in the anthropology book Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society, the author, Lila Abu-Lughod, admits that sheÃÂ ...
Jadaliyya
March 28, 2017
The library itself was made available through the generosity of Lila Abu-Lughod, Janet's daughter, and herself a scholar of uncompromisingÃÂ ...
The Hill (blog)
February 22, 2017
Honor killings, defined by anthropologist Lila Abu-Lughod as "the killing of a woman by her relatives for violation of a sexual code in the nameÃÂ ...
TIME
November 1, 2013
A moral crusade to rescue oppressed Muslim women from their cultures and their religion has swept the public sphere, dissolving distinctionsÃÂ ...
Spiegel Online
May 18, 2008
Scholar Lila Abu-Lughod has taken a close look at the way ... Lila Abu-Lughod: Only my father was Palestinian, but for both my parents theÃÂ ...
The Daily Freeman
December 31, 1999
POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. >> Lila Abu-Lughod will give the Vassar College Religion Department's 2017 Frederic C. Wood Lecture, titled “FramingÃÂ ...
Jadaliyya
March 29, 2017
The library itself was made available through the generosity of Lila Abu-Lughod, Janet's daughter, and herself a scholar of uncompromising political and intellectual commitment, who, together with her family, gifted the volumes to Columbia University.
MO
March 28, 2017
In haar boek Do Muslim women need Saving? beschrijft de Amerikaanse antropologe Lila Abu Lughod hoe westerse machthebbers vaak de retoriek van de bevrijding van de moslimvrouw misbruikt hebben. Terwijl die retoriek er in het binnenland toe diendeÃÂ ...
TeenVogue.com
March 27, 2017
Lila Abu-Lughod, a women's studies and anthropology professor at Columbia University who has written about Arab women for 30 years, is the author of Do Muslim Women Need Saving?
The Hill (blog)
February 22, 2017
Honor killings, defined by anthropologist Lila Abu-Lughod as "the killing of a woman by her relatives for violation of a sexual code in the name of restoring family honor," are mistakenly thought to be a uniquely Muslim practice and specific to MuslimÃÂ ...
The Hill (blog)
February 22, 2017
Honor killings, defined by anthropologist Lila Abu-Lughod as "the killing of a woman by her relatives for violation of a sexual code in the name of restoring family honor," are mistakenly thought to be a uniquely Muslim practice and specific to MuslimÃÂ ...
Jadaliyya
February 14, 2017
[xiii] Some commodities became affordable to larger segments of Egyptians, compared, for instance, to the earlier period that Lila Abu-Lughod examined in her study on television dramas. Abu-Lughod shows that Egyptian soap operas appeared as distantÃÂ ...
Coconuts Jakarta
January 21, 2017
The construction and representation of Muslim women as being in need of saving, according to Lila Abu-Lughod in her book Do Muslim Women Need Saving?
Times of India (blog)
January 18, 2017
Women's rights have also been the cover for many predations, like the invasion of Afghanistan, and global gender justice campaigns often look like Western moral crusades, writes the anthropologist Lila Abu-Lughod in her essay 'Do Muslim Women NeedÃÂ ...
The Conversation AU
January 12, 2017
The construction and representation of Muslim women as being in need of saving, according to Lila Abu-Lughod in her book Do Muslim Women Need Saving?
The Hindu
January 7, 2017
Anthropologist Lila Abu-Lughod has pointed out the local status attached to the veil, which is for "good respectable women from strong families who are not forced to make a living selling on the street.
Mada Masr
December 22, 2016
Then there is the romance of resistance, which Lila Abu-Lughod wrote about, the tendency to glorify or find resistance in acts that are not resistance.
Mada Masr
December 22, 2016
Then there is the romance of resistance, about which Lila Abu-Lughod wrote, the tendency to glorify or find resistance in acts that are not resistance.
Altmuslimah
December 13, 2016
But some of my favorites include Qur'an and Woman (Amina Wadud), The Veil and the Male Elite (Fatima Mernissi) and Do Muslim Women Need Saving (Lila Abu-Lughod). 2. Who inspires/inspired you? There are tons of people who have inspired me alongÃÂ ...
Jadaliyya
December 9, 2016
After a long delay, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has finally published its latest Arab Human Development Report, ADHR 2016: Youth and the Prospects for Development in a Changing Reality.
Outlook India
November 7, 2016
Lila Abu-Lughod, an anthropologist writing on Arab women for the past thirty years, stresses the need for rich contextual explanation rather than generalizations about Muslim women's hardships.
Georgetown University The Hoya
August 23, 2016
the anthropologist Lila Abu-Lughod focuses on the fact that veiling in the Middle East is simply a part of the culture. While many would say that women should not dress just to accommodate culture, it is unfair for Western feminists to try and make the ...
The Atlantic
July 27, 2016
... commitments by scholars and activists in universities both in the U.K. and the U.S. "It has been a long struggle to get support from universities for them," Lila Abu-Lughod, a professor of anthropology and women's and gender studies at Columbia ...
On Line opinion
May 18, 2016
As Lila Abu-Lughod, a professor of anthropology at Columbia University, points out the First Lady's speech helped recreate "an imaginative geography of West versus East, us versus Muslims-cultures in which first ladies give speeches versus others in ...
Religion Dispatches
May 12, 2016
That, as Lila Abu-Lughod found in her work, for example, Bedouin women wear the veil in mostly rural settings, but not in urban Cairo, and that also differentiates in terms of whether they are interacting with kin/non-kin men, et cetera.
Daily Sabah
April 17, 2016
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Women's eNews
April 7, 2016
The 2013 book "Do Muslim Women Need Saving?," by Columbia University anthropologist Lila Abu-Lughod, shows how Western discourse on honor crimes tends to present them as problems of distant Middle Eastern, South Asian or Islamic "cultures.
Scroll.in
March 15, 2016
The list of signatories includes some of the world's leading scholars including Partha Chatterjee, Homi Bhabha, Lila Abu-Lughod and Sheldon Pollock. The letter criticises media outlets, in particular television channel Zee News, for branding Menon asÃÂ ...
The National
March 12, 2016
As Lila Abu-Lughod writes in Do Muslim Women Need Saving?, there is an antifeminist literary subgenre that depicts Arab and Muslim women as objects needing western salvation.
Jadaliyya
March 2, 2016
See, for example, Lila Abu-Lughod, Do Muslim Women Need Saving? (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2013); Sherene Rezack, Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims from Western Law and Politics (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008); GargiÃÂ ...
Jadaliyya
March 1, 2016
[5] See, for example, Lila Abu-Lughod, Do Muslim Women Need Saving? (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2013); Sherene Rezack, Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims from Western Law and Politics (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008); GargiÃÂ ...
Eurasia Review
January 27, 2016
The Taliban and terrorists became, as anthropologist Lila Abu-Lughod noted, "a kind of hyphenated monster identity". And this was not all.
Center for Research on Globalization
January 26, 2016
The Taliban and terrorists became, as anthropologist Lila Abu-Lughod noted, "a kind of hyphenated monster identity".[4] And this was not all.
Tablet Magazine
January 25, 2016
In addition to selected book-chapters and articles engaging contemporary debates on these topics, our readings will include (provisional list): Lila Abu Lughod, Do Muslim Women Need Saving? Khaled El-Rouayheb, Before Homosexuality, Karen Bauer,ÃÂ ...
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