In reading about some of the authors of the articles we read over the coursee of the semester i stumbled upon the father of Lila-Abu-Lughod, who used to teach at NYU, and married a world renowned politics professor and theorist formerly at NYU- Timothy mitchell. Interestingly the two professors now teach at columbia, but i wiki-ed her father and found this interesting biography and article.
Ibrahim Abu-Lughod (Arabic: إبراهيم أبو لغد, February 15, 1929 — May 23, 2001) was a Palestinian (later American) academic, characterised by Edward Said as "Palestine's foremost academic and intellectual"[1] and by Rashid Khalidi as one of the first Arab-American scholars to have a really serious effect on the way the Middle East is portrayed in political science and in America". [2] His student Deborah J. Gerner wrote that he "took on the challenge of interpreting U.S. politics and society for the Palestinian community as well as eloquently articulating Palestinian aspirations to the rest of the world."[3]
He passed away in 2001 but returned to jaffa a coastal city adjacent to Tel Aviv before his passing to live in his childhood homeland, and this article was written for the jerusalem quarterly about her father.http://www.jerusalemquarterly.org/details.php?cat=1&id=113
(you can access the link by clicking the title of the post)
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