website nationality article_title birth_date known_for employer name occupation alma_mater
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/anthropology/fac-bios/abu-lughod/faculty.html usa lila abu-lughod
 1952 anthropology , women 's and gender studies columbia university lila abu-lughod scholar carleton college harvard university
lila abu-lughod

lila abu-lughod -lrb- born 1952 -rrb- is an american with palestinian and jewish ancestry who is professor of anthropology and women 's and gender studies at columbia university in new york city .
a specialist of the arab world , her seven books , most based on long term ethnographic research , cover topics from sentiment and poetry to nationalism and media , from gender politics to the politics of memory .
