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Hamid Dabashi

@DabashiHamid

Official Account for #HamidDabashi, the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies & Comparative Literature at @Columbia University.

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Iran's counterstrike has put Israel on notice, but the focus must still be on Gaza middleeasteye.net/opinion/iran-i…

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middleeasteye.net/opinion/war-ga…—The whole world is now confronted with the savageries of 'western civilisation', though not just in political terms —

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middleeasteye.net/opinion/war-ga… From Heidegger's Nazism to Habermas's Zionism, the suffering of the 'Other' is of little consequence  —

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Since Israel launched its genocidal campaign against Palestinians in Gaza, its western propagandists have waged a battle of disinformation—

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middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel… — What the Israelis are doing in Palestine is what the French did in Algeria, the British did in India, the Belgians in the Congo, the Americans in Vietnam, the Spaniards in Latin America, the Italians in Africa …another chapter of …genocidal history.

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Why Zionist efforts to suppress Palestine activism on US campuses will fail middleeasteye.net/opinion/us-zio…

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A collection of my essays and articles on Edward Said and Palestine — including my two travelogues to occupied Palestine— published by Haymarket Books in 2020 —

A collection of my essays and articles on Edward Said and Palestine — including my two travelogues to occupied Palestine— published by Haymarket Books in 2020 —
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“Dabashi coaxes and cajoles the reader to achieve the critical intimacy with the founding epic of Iran . . . . Such readings open many worlds, shaming the Eurocentric binaries of 'world literature.' --

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

“Dabashi coaxes and cajoles the reader to achieve the critical intimacy with the founding epic of Iran . . . . Such readings open many worlds, shaming the Eurocentric binaries of 'world literature.' -- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
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“A crucial text to advance post- and decolonial thinking across the Global South” — Nelson Maldonado-Torres

“A crucial text to advance post- and decolonial thinking across the Global South” — Nelson Maldonado-Torres
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“What does it mean to be a Muslim in this world . . . ? Dabashi suggests that the transition to a changed, post-Western world requires the crafting of a new language of critical conversation with Islam . . . a language that is tuned to the emerging, not the disappearing, world—

“What does it mean to be a Muslim in this world . . . ? Dabashi suggests that the transition to a changed, post-Western world requires the crafting of a new language of critical conversation with Islam . . . a language that is tuned to the emerging, not the disappearing, world—
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I published this book on the ideological foundations of the Islamic Revolution in Iran more than thirty years ago in 1992— had started working on it soon after the 1977-1979 revolution— it is now itself a historical document —

I published this book on the ideological foundations of the Islamic Revolution in Iran more than thirty years ago in 1992— had started working on it soon after the 1977-1979 revolution— it is now itself a historical document —
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“Hamid Dabashi's scholarly writings always have a revelatory quality. Yet again he uncovers, in his new book, an astonishing new world for English readers.”

— Pankaj Mishra

“Hamid Dabashi's scholarly writings always have a revelatory quality. Yet again he uncovers, in his new book, an astonishing new world for English readers.” — Pankaj Mishra
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“Dabashi's effortless, capacious erudition is obvious all throughout. Even his offhand comments about Ferdowsi's Shahnameh or Muhammad Iqbal's Asrar-e Khodi (and dozens of other canonical Persian works) are uniformly brilliant.”―

Steve Donoghue, Open Letters Monthly

“Dabashi's effortless, capacious erudition is obvious all throughout. Even his offhand comments about Ferdowsi's Shahnameh or Muhammad Iqbal's Asrar-e Khodi (and dozens of other canonical Persian works) are uniformly brilliant.”― Steve Donoghue, Open Letters Monthly
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“Generates new ways of thinking about global culture that do away with tired dichotomies such as East and West, center and periphery, and tradition and modernity… [An] urgent and impressive accomplishment.”—

Shaj Mathew, Critical Inquiry—

“Generates new ways of thinking about global culture that do away with tired dichotomies such as East and West, center and periphery, and tradition and modernity… [An] urgent and impressive accomplishment.”— Shaj Mathew, Critical Inquiry—
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