Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society (Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1986).
Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories (Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1993).
Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East,
edited (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998).
"Finding a Place for Islam: Egyptian Television and the National
Interest." Public Culture, Spring, 1993.
Lila Abu-Lughod,
Associate Professor
Anthropology and Middle
Eastern Studies
Ph.D., 1984,
Harvard University.
I am an anthropologist whose initial research in Egypt was on gender, oral poetry, and the politics of sentiment in a Bedouin community. I am currently working on a study of Egyptian television drama, based on fieldwork in rural Upper Egypt and in Cairo, in which I explore the media's role in cultural debates about national religious, and social identity as well as in ordinary people's lives. My graduate teaching includes courses on gender politics in the Muslim world, more general courses on anthropological theory and the politics of ethnography, and on critical social theory and the question of modernity. I will be developing courses on nationalism, media and culture in the post-colonial world.