Ibrahim Abu-Lughod

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Ibrahim Abu-Lughod (born February 15, 1929 in Jaffa , † May 23, 2001 in Ramallah ) was a Palestinian-American political scientist and politician.

Abu-Lughod fled Palestine during the Nakba on May 3, 1948 with the last ship that left Jaffa for Beirut . He came to the United States via Nablus and Amman , where he studied at the University of Illinois . In 1957 he received his PhD in political science from Princeton University .

Abu-Lughod worked for UNESCO in Egypt for a few years , then returned to the USA and, after teaching at Smith College and McGill University, was appointed to the Chair of Political Science at Northwestern University in 1985 . He received US citizenship in 1975. In 1992 Abu-Lughod returned to Palestine.

Abu-Lughod was a long-time member of the Palestinian National Council .

Fonts

  • Arab Rediscovery of Europe: A Study in Cultural Encounters. 1963
  • The Evolution of the Meaning of Nationalism. 1963
  • The Arab-Israeli Confrontation of June 1967: An Arab Perspective. 1970
  • The Transformation of Palestine. 1971
  • Palestinian Rights: Affirmation and Denial. 1982
  • The Landscape of Palestine: Equivocal Poetry. 1999

Individual evidence

  1. Arun Kapil: Ibrahim Abu-Lughod. In: Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, November 1987, pp. 22-23 ( online )
  2. Deborah J. Gerner: In Memoriam Ibrahim Abu-Lughod (1929-2001). In: Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, July 2001, page 20 ( online )