Ibrahim Abu-Lughod

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod (1929–2001) was a leading American–Palestinian academic, editor and public intellectual. He taught at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, for twenty-four years, where he also directed the Institute of African Studies. He co-founded the Association of Arab-American University Graduates and then the journal, Arab Studies Quarterly, whilst holding two UNESCO posts. During the last decade of his life he was Professor and Vice-President at Bir Zeit University in the West Bank.