Transnational Politics and Feminist Inquiries in the Middle East: An Interview with Professor Lila Abu-Lughod
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In this interview Professor Abu-Lughod traces how her detour into postcolonial studies and transnational feminism created new possibilities for inquiries into the Middle East, while emphasizing how significant ethnographic research was for her to address key issues in postcolonial studies. The interview then focuses on the question of Palestine, and Abu-Lughod talks about her US academic father, Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, who came from Palestine and returned to Palestine in his later life, as well as her personal and professional commitments to justice in the region. She reflects on the distinctive ways in which women experience militarized zones of conflict, such as Palestine, as well as on the intersectional politics between the Palestinian cause and gender justice for sexual minorities. Elaborating on how Palestinian art has played a key activist role in resisting Israeli oppression against the Palestinians, the interview ends with Abu-Lughod discussing how her forthcoming book Saving Muslim Women speaks to transnational feminist inquiries in the Middle East.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".