Interviews and Media

Upcoming Events

 

Past Events and Interviews

Do Muslim Women Still Need Saving: How Lila Abu-Lughod Interprets Today’s Political Reality
Columbia Journal. Interview by Mariam Syed. Feb. 5, 2024

A Feminism that Embraces Humanity
In the Moment, Critical Inquiry Blog December 12, 2023

Book Launch for The Cunning of Gender Violence: Securitization and the Violence of Law
Barnard Center for Research on Women. October 11, 2024

Book Launch for The Cunning of Gender Violence: Civilizing Interventions: Humanitarianism and Gender Violence
World Room, Pulitzer Hall, Columbia University. Sept. 13, 2023

Inaugural Frederik Barth Lecture in Anthropology.
Boston University. April 19, 2023

The Future of Folklore and Oral Literature in the Digital Age, Saudi Arabia.
Webinar. Adab, Saudi Arabia.
February 10, 2023

Gender Violence, Geopolitics, and Feminism. Webinar.
Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program. George Washington University.
February 2, 2023

Confronting Representations: An Interview with Lila Abu-Lughod by Aiman Rizvi.
Qatar Museums. January 8, 2023

“Acknowledgments of an Anthropologist.”
Distinguished Lecture. Centre for Ethnography, University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada.
November 3, 2022

Keynote to the 33rd Annual Meetings of the Association of Brazilian Anthropologists
Agradecimentos de uma antropóloga
August 29, 2022

The Cunning of Gender Violence: Geopolitics and Feminism
With Rema Hammami and Nadera Shalhoub Kevorkian
Webinar sponsored by Palestinian Studies, Watson Institute, and Center for Middle East Studies at Brown University.
February 25, 2022

The New Arab Voice Podcast: Season 2
Podcast with Nick McAlpin on the legacy of Veiled Sentiments, 35 years after its first publication.
September 10, 2021

Theory from the Margins, Webinar
Geopolitics of Gender Violence
April 8, 2021

TikTok “Inspired by Lila Abu-Lughod”

On Teaching Gender and Islam in the Middle East.
Interview conducted by Jacob Bessen. Jadaliyya. The Pedagogy Edition.
May 20, 2020

NYU Global Studies Lecture| Security and the Political Geographies of Gender Violence
December 3, 2019

21st Annual B.N. Ganguli Memorial Lecture | Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, India
Gender, Violence, Security: Circuits of Power and the Muslim Question
November 1, 2019

Inaugural Anthropology Lecture with Lila Abu-Lughod| KU Leuven
The Courage of Truth: Making Anthropology Matter
September 24, 2019

Visiting Lectureship in Human Rights | University of Alberta
“Is the War on Muslims a War on Rights?” with Professor Lila Abu-Lughod
Monday, February 4, 2019, 7:00 pm
Myer Horowitz Theatre (8900 114 Street NW)

Moods of Betrayal in the Story of Palestine
Public Books. July 18, 2018

Lila Abu-Lughod interviews Lara Deeb and Jessica Winegar
“In Conversation. Middle East Politics in US Academia: The Case of Anthropology.”
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, Vol 37:1. 2017

Muslim Studies Program Lecture | Michigan State University
“Muslim Women and the Freedom to Choose”
February 16, 2017

Wood Lecture | Department of Religion, Vassar College
“Framing Islam: ‘Violent Extremism’ and the Rise of Securofeminism,”
October 3, 2017

“Muslimwomen,” Journalists and Scholars. Review of Excellent Daughters: The Secret Lives of Young Women Who Are Transforming the Arab World by Katherine Zoepf
Women’s Review of Books,
November/December. 2016

Interview | American Ethnologist
“Ten questions about anthropology, feminism, Middle East politics, and publics”, Sindre Bangstad (link to text)
November 22, 2016

Interview with Nourhan Tewfiq | Al-Ahram Weekly
“Do Muslim Women Need Saving?”
December 12, 2015

Interview with Rasha Hanafy | Al-Ahram Hebdo
“Lila Abu-Lughod : La reconnaissance des torts faits par Israël est inimaginable.”
November 11-17, 2015

Lila Abu-Lughod: Professor and Author | Institute for Middle East Understanding
October 10, 2015

The Read Around: Video of Lila Abu-Lughod | New York Times – ARTSBEAT
December 23, 2013

Interview | The National
Topless Protests Raise the Question: Who Speaks for Muslim Women?November 30, 2013

Do Muslim Women Need Saving? | TIME
November 1, 2013

Edward Said Memorial Conference | Utrecht University
Keynote lecture of Prof. Lila Abu-Lughod (Columbia University): “Authorizing the New Moral Crusade to Save Muslim Women”. (video)
Utrecht, April 15, 2013.

Excerpt |  The Daily Beast 
Do Muslim Women Need Saving? October 22 2013.

Interview by Ehsan Lorafshar | Iranian Institute of Anthropology and Culture
“Anthropology and Cultural Dialogue with Lila Abu Lughod” (In Farsi)
2013

Interview | Jadaliyya.
New Texts Out Now, Lila Abu-Lughod and Anupama Rao,
“Women’s Rights, Muslim Family Law, and the Politics of Consent.”
2012

Article with Maya Mikdashi | Jadaliyya
Tradition and the Anti-Politics Machine: DAM Seduced by the “Honor Crime.”
November 23, 2012.

Interview by Basuli Deb | Postcolonial Text  7, No. 1.
“Transnational Politics and Feminist Inquiries in the Middle East: An Interview with Professor Lila Abu-Lughod”
Special section on “Transnational Inquiries: Representing Postcolonial Violence and Cultures of Struggle.”
2012

NCRW-UNIFEM Annual Conference | New York
“Strategic Imperatives for Ending Violence Against Women,”
June 2010

Islam and Public Culture: The Politics of Egyptian Television Serials. 
Middle East Report #180,
23(1):25‑30. 1993

Ayse Parla interviews Lila Abu-Lughod.
Feminism, Nationalism, Modernity.  ISIM Newsletter. 2:28.
1999

Questions of Modernity. With T. Mitchell |  ITEMS47(4):79‑83.
Reprinted in Items: Insights from the Social Sciences (2016)
From Archives. 1993

Bedouins, Cassettes, and Technologies of Public Culture. 
Middle East Report #159,
19(4): 7‑11 and 47. 1989

Paul Riesman: An Appreciation.
Anthropology Newsletter 29 (6): 12‑13. 1988

Bedouin Blues | Natural History 96 (7): 24‑33.
1987