| 2022 | News and Views: Feminism and Geopolitics—A Collaborative Project on the Cunning of Gender Violence. Co-authored with Rema Hammami, Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, and Laura Charney. Feminist Studies 48 (2). |
| 2021 | Art, Activism, and the Presence of Memory in Palestine: Interview with Palestinian Artist Rana Bishara. Comparative Studies of Asia, Africa and the Middle East VOL 41 (1): 122-145. |
| 2020 | Imagining Palestine’s Alter-Natives: Settler Colonialism and Museum Politics. Critical Inquiry 47 (Autumn): 1–27. |
| 2020 | On Teaching Gender and Islam in the Middle East: An Interview with Lila Abu-Lughod (conducted by Jacob Bessen). JADMAG 7 (2): 38-42. Jadaliyya, May 20, 2020. |
| 2019 | The Courage of Truth: Making Anthropology Matter. Working Papers in Anthropology, Inaugural Anthropology Lecture, KU Leuven, Belgium, September 2019 |
| 2018 | Moods of Betrayal in the Story of Palestine. Public Books, July 18 |
| 2018 | Palestine: Doing Things with Archives. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, Vol 38:1, pp. 3-5. |
| 2017 | Commentary on “Ethnography as Knowledge in the Arab Region” Contemporary Levant2 (1): 67-70. |
| 2016 | The Cross-Publics of Ethnography: The Case of the “Muslimwoman.” American Ethnologist 43 (4): 595-608. |
| 2016 | The Values of Ethnography: An Afterword. Veiled Sentiments, 30thAnniversary Edition. University of California Press. |
| 2016 | Should we Act on Israel/Palestine, or Not? Anthropology News OnlineMarch 24, 2016. |
| 2016 | For the Love of Cities and Books: Janet Abu-Lughod (1928-2013). Preface to Arab Cities edited by Amale Andraos and Nora Akawi. Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University. |
| 2016 | Buffeted by How Others See You. In Being Palestinian: Personal Reflections on Palestinian Identity in the Diaspora, edited by Yasir Suleiman. Edinburgh Press, 31-33. |
| 2015 | Introduction: The Politics of Feminist Politics. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East35:1. |
| 2015 | Review Symposium. Response to Reviews of Do Muslim Women Need Saving? Ethnicities 15 (5): 759-777. |
| 2014 | Taking Back the Village: Rural Youth in a Moral Revolution. Middle East Report272: 12-17. |
| 2013 | Authorizing Moral Crusades to Save Muslim Women. The Farhat J. Ziadeh Lecture in Arab and Islamic Studies, 2012. University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. |
| 2013 | Research on Muslim Women: Compelled by the World. In Getting the Question Rights: Interdisciplinary Explorations at Makere University. Edited by Mahmood Mamdani. Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR). Kampala, Uganda, pp. 75-96. |
| 2012 | Beyond the “Woman Question” in the Egyptian Revolution. Lila Abu-Lughod and Rabab El Mahdi. News and Views. Feminist Studies 37, No. 3:683-91. |
| 2012 | Living the “Revolution” in an Egyptian Village: Moral Action in a National Space. AE Commentary. American Ethnologist. 39 (1):16-20. |
| 2012 | Pushing at the Door:My Father’s Political Education, and Mine. In SeekingPalestine: New Palestinian Writing on Exile and Home, ed. Penny Johnson and Reja Shehadeh. Delhi, India: Women Unlimited, pp. 43-61. |
| 2011 | A Kind of Kinship. Being There: Learning to Live Cross-Culturally, ed. Sarah Davis and Melvin Konner. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, pp. 8-21. |
| 2011 | Seductions of the “Honor Crime.” Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 22 (1):17-63. |
| 2010 | Anthropology in the Territory of Rights, Human, Islamic, and Otherwise. Radcliffe-Brown Lecture in Social Anthropology. Proceedings of the British Academy Vol. 167: 225-62. |
| 2010 | Foreword, “Displaced at Home: Ethnicity and Gender among Palestinians in Israel”, ed. Rhoda Kanaaneh and Isis Nuseir. Albany: SUNY Press, ix-xiii. |
| 2010 | “Against Universals: Dialects of (Women’s) Human Rights and Human Capabilities” In Rethinking the Human, ed. J. Michelle Molina, Don Swearer, and Susan Lloyd McGarry, pp. 69-93. Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School. Harvard University Press. |
| 2010 | The Active Social Life of “Muslim Women’s Rights”: A Plea for Ethnography, not Polemic, with Cases from Egypt and Palestine.” Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, 6 (1), Winter: 1-45. |
| 2009 | Dialects of Women’s Empowerment: The International Circuitry of the Arab Human Development Report. International Journal of Middle East Studies 41,no. 1 (2009) February 83-103. |
| 2007 | “Return to Half-Ruins: Fathers and Daughters, Memory and History in Palestine,” in Rites of Return, edited by Marianne Hirsch and Nancy Miller, Columbia University Press, 2011, 124-136. |
| 2007 | Introduction: The Claims of Memory. With Ahmad H. Sa’di. In Nakba: Palestine, 1948 and the Claims of Memory, edited by Ahmad H. Sa’di and Lila Abu Lughod. New York: Columbia University Press, pp. 1-24. |
| 2006 | The Debate about Gender, Religion, and Rights: Thoughts of a Middle East Anthropologist. Publications of the Modern Language Association, 121 (5): 1621-30. |
| 2006 | The Power of Images and the Dangers of Pity on www.eurozine.com |
| 2005 | About Politics, Palestine, and Friendship: A Letter to Edward from Egypt. Critical Inquiry. Winter 31 (2): 381-88. |
| 2005 | On- and Off-Camera in Egyptian Soap Operas: Women, Television, and the Public Sphere. On Shifting Ground: Muslim Women in the Global Era, edited by Fereshteh Nouraie-Simone. New York: The Feminist Press, pp. 17-35. 2ndedition 2014. |
| 2005 | Women, Gender and Modesty Discourses: Overview. Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, Vol. 2. Leiden: Brill, pp. 494-98. |
| 2004 | Ethnography in/of Nations. General Anthropology10 (2), Spring 2004:1-4. |
| 2003 | Asserting the Local as National in the Face of the Global: The Ambivalence of Authenticity in Egyptian Soap Opera. In Localizing Knowledge in a Globalizing World: Recasting the Area Studies Debate, edited by Ali Mirsepassi, Amrita Basu, and Frederick Weaver. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, pp.101-127. |
| 2002 | Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?: Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others. American Anthropologist104 (3): 783-790. |
| 2002 | “Egyptian Melodrama—Technology of the Modern Subject?” In Media Worlds, edited by Faye Ginsburg, Lila Abu-Lughod, and Brian Larkin. Berkeley: University of California Press. 115-33. |
| 2001 | Orientalism and Middle East Feminist Studies: A Review Essay. Feminist Studies 27 (1): 101-13. |
| 2001 | My Father’s Return to Palestine. Jerusalem Quarterly File, Summer 2001. |
| 2000 | Modern Subjects: Egyptian Melodrama and Postcolonial Difference. In Questions of Modernity, edited by Timothy Mitchell. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, pp. 87-114. |
| 2000 | Women on Women: Television Feminism and Village Lives. In Women and Power in the Middle East, edited by Susan Slyomovics and Suad Joseph. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. |
| 2000 | Locating Ethnography. Ethnography1 (2):261-267. |
| 1999 | Comment on “Writing for Culture” by Christoph Brumann. Current Anthropology 40, Special Supplement on “Culture–A Second Chance?” February, pp. S13‑15. |
| 1998 | Contentious Theoretical Issues: Third World Feminisms and Identity Politics. Women’s Studies Quarterly 26 (3 &4): 25-29. |
| 1998 | On Photographs, Fieldnotes, and Participant-Observation. Xcp: Cross-Cultural Poetics 3:34-41. |
| 1998 | Television and the Virtues of Education: Upper Egyptian Encounters with State Culture. In Directions of Change in Rural Egypt, edited by Nicholas Hopkins and Kirsten Westergaard. American University in Cairo Press, pp.147-165. |
| 1997 | The Interpretation of Culture(s) After Television. Representations 59: 109-134. |
| 1995 | Movie Stars and Islamic Moralism in Egypt. Social Text 42:53‑67. |
| 1995 | The Objects of Soap Opera: Egyptian Television and the Cultural Politics of Modernity. In Worlds Apart: Modernity Through the Prism of the Local, edited by Daniel Miller, pp.190‑210. ASA Decennial Conference Series. London: Routledge. |
| 1995 | A Tale of Two Pregnancies. In Women Writing Culture, edited by Ruth Behar and Deborah Gordon, pp. 339‑349. Berkeley: University of California Press |
| 1995 | “Our Blood will Plant its Olive Tree.” Foreword to Second Life: A West Bank Memoir by Janet Varner Gunn. University of Minnesota Press. |
| 1993 | Finding a Place for Islam: Egyptian Television Serials and the National Interest. Public Culture 5(3): 493‑513. |
| 1993 | Islam and the Gendered Discourses of Death. International Journal of Middle East Studies 25(2):187‑205. |
| 1993 | Migdim: Egyptian Bedouin Matriarch. In Struggle and Survival in the Modern Middle East, edited by Edmund Burke III, pp. 271‑289. Berkeley: University of California Press. |
| 1993 | Sad Songs of the Western Desert. In Everyday Life in the Contemporary Middle East, edited by Donna Lee Bowen and Evelyn Early, pp.281‑286. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 1st, 2ndand 3rdeditions. |
| 1991 | Writing Against Culture. In Recapturing Anthropology: Working in the Present, edited by Richard Fox, pp. 137‑162. Santa Fe: School of American Research Press. |
| 1990 | Can There Be a Feminist Ethnography? Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, 5 (1) #9:7‑27. |
| 1990 | Introduction: Emotion, Discourse, and the Politics of Everyday Life (with Catherine Lutz). In Language and the Politics of Emotion, edited by C. Lutz and L. Abu‑Lughod. New York: Cambridge University Press. |
| 1990 | Shifting Politics in Bedouin Love Poetry. In Language and the Politics of Emotion, edited by C. Lutz and L. Abu‑Lughod, pp. 24‑45. |
| 1990 | The Romance of Resistance: Tracing Transformations of Power Through Bedouin Women. American Ethnologist 17:41‑55. |
| 1989 | Zones of Theory in the Anthropology of the Arab World. Annual Review of Anthropology 18:267‑306. |
| 1988 | Fieldwork of a Dutiful Daughter. In Arab Women in the Field: Studying Your Own Society, edited by Soraya Altorki and Camillia El‑Solh, pp. 139‑161. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press. |
| 1988 | Paul Riesman: An Appreciation. Anthropology Newsletter 29 (6): 12‑13. |
| 1987 | Bedouin Blues. Natural History96 (7): 24‑33. |
| 1985 | Honor and the Sentiments of Loss in a Bedouin Society. American Ethnologist 12 (2): 245‑261. (Recipient of the Stirling Award). |
| 1985 | A Community of Secrets: The Separate World of Bedouin Women. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society10 (4): 637‑657. |