
Dr. Abu-Lughod’s work, strongly ethnographic and mostly based in Egypt, has focused on three broad issues: the relationship between cultural forms and power; the politics of knowledge and representation; and the dynamics of women’s and human rights, global liberalism, and feminist governance of the Muslim world.
Dr. Abu-Lughod is the co-editor of The Cunning of Gender Violence: Geopolitics and Feminism (Duke University Press, 2023) and the author of Do Muslim Women Need Saving? (Harvard University Press, 2013).
Professor Abu-Lughod is a graduate of Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from Harvard University.


