Search Results For “ AAUG ” 2 articles

  • A Different Kind of Future

    A Different Kind of Future

    The United States’ founders were taken with the idea that they were building a New Jerusalem. Rhetoric of a City on the Hill animated the state-building project, particularly during what some historians call the colonial era. Such symbolis..

  • A Gentle and Generous Mentor: Janet Abu-Lughod

    A Gentle and Generous Mentor: Janet Abu-Lughod

    I first met Janet Abu-Lughod at a meeting of the Arab American University Graduates (AAUG). AAUG was co-founded in 1967 (disbanded in 2007), by Janet’s husband, Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, a leading political scientist of the Arab world. A graduate student at Columbia University at the time, I was rathe..