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Lila Abu-Lughod
is professor of anthropology and women's and gender studies at Columbia University. She received her PhD from Harvard University and has taught at Williams College, Princeton University, and NYU. Her most recent book is Dramas of Nationhood: The Politics of Television in Egypt (2004).
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The Muslim woman
The power of images and the danger of pity
Western feminists who speak on behalf of "oppressed" Muslim women assume that individual desire and social convention are inherently at odds. But veiling should not be confused with a lack of agency or even traditionalism. [more]
01.09.2006