A few years ago I read a collection of personal reflections on what it means to be a Palestinian in the diaspora. Two entries in particular stayed with me. The first ...
Lila Abu-Lughod
Lila Abu-Lughod is the Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University, where she teaches anthropology and gender studies. She is the author of Do Muslim Women Need Saving? (2013) and Dramas of Nationhood (2005) and the coeditor, with Ahmad H. Sa’di, of Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory (2007). On the faculty of the Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia, she also serves on the board of the Palestinian Museum in Birzeit. 
