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Notable ideas	Trans-Aesthetics, Radical Hermeneutics, Anti-colonial Modernity, Will to Resist Power, Dialectics of National Traumas and National Art Forms, Phantom Liberties
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Hamid Dabashi (Persian: حمید دباشی) is an Iranian-American historian, cultural and literary critic who has made important contributions to the study of Iran, World cinema and Shi'a Islam from a postcolonial perspective. He is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York City. ^[1] “Farsi” redirects here. ... This article is about the occupation of studying history. ... The word culture, from the Latin colo, -ere, with its root meaning to cultivate, generally refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that give such activity significance. ... Literary criticism is the study, discussion, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Shī‘a Islam, also Shi‘ite Islam, or Shi‘ism (Arabic ) is the second largest denomination of the Islamic faith. ... This article is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... Hagop Kevorkian was an Armenian connoisseur of art, originally from Kayseri who graduated from the American-funded Robert College in Istanbul and settled in New York in the late 19th century and helped America acquire a taste for Eastern artifacts. ... Comparative literature (sometimes abbreviated Comp. ... Alma Mater Columbia University is a private university in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ...

He is the author of forteen books^[2]. Among them are his Authority in Islam; Theology of Discontent; Truth and Narrative; Close Up: Iranian Cinema; Staging a Revolution: The Art of Persuasion in the Islamic Republic of Iran; an edited volume, Dreams of a Nation: On Palestinian Cinema; and his one-volume analysis of Iranian history Iran: A People Interrupted.^[3]

Biography

Born and raised in southern city of Ahvaz in Iran, Dabashi was educated in Iran and then in the United States, where he received his Ph.D. in sociology of culture and Islamic studies from the University of Pennsylvania in 1984, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University. He wrote his dissertation on Max Weber’s theory of charismatic authority with Philip Rieff. An award-winning author and frequent lecturer around the globe, he lives in New York with his wife and colleague, the Iranian-Swedish feminist, Golbarg Bashi.^[4] The city of Ahvaz or Ahwaz[1] (Persian: ahvāz, Arabic: ), is the capital of the Iranian province of KhÅ«zestān. ... Sociology (from Latin: socius, companion; and the suffix -ology, the study of, from Greek λόγος, lógos, knowledge [1]) is the systematic and scientific study of society, including patterns of social relationships, social action, and culture[2]. Areas studied in sociology can range from the analysis of brief contacts between anonymous... For other uses, see Culture (disambiguation). ... Islamic Studies is the academic discipline which focuses on Islamic issues. ... This article is about the private Ivy League university in Philadelphia. ... Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. ... For the politician, see Max Weber (politician). ... Jesus is considered by historians such as Weber to be an example of a charismatic religious leader; The sociologist Max Weber defined charismatic authority as resting on devotion to the exceptional sanctity, heroism or exemplary character of an individual person, and of the normative patterns or order revealed or ordained... Philip Rieff (born December 15, 1922) is an American sociologist and cultural critic, known for his writings on the cultural significance of Freudianism and the inroads made by the therapeutic ethos into Western culture. ... Golbarg Bashi (Persian: ‎ ​) is a Swedish feminist academic and human rights activist of Iranian origin. ...

Major works

In his book Iran: A People Interrupted, Dabashi argues that Iranian history must be understood as defiance against both domestic tyranny (monarchical or Islamist) and colonialism/imperialism.

Hailed as "a leading light in Iranian studies" by the US Chronicle of Higher Education, Hamid Dabashi’s influential books are his Iran: A People Interrupted, which traces the last two hundred year's of Iran's history with unprecedented analysis of key events, cultural trends, and political developments, up to the collapse of the reform movement and the emergence of the new and combative presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Dabashi argues that "Iran needs to be understood as the site of an ongoing contest between two contrasting visions of modernity, one colonial, the other anticolonial". Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...

His Theology of Discontent, is a definitive study of the global rise of Islamism as a form of liberation theology and the most comprehensive examination of the ideological roots of contemporary Islamist movements, and his Close Up: Iranian Cinema, Past, Present, Future which is the founding text on modern Iranian cinema and the phenomenon of (Iranian) national cinema as a form of cultural modernity – featured even in the Lonely Planet travel guide for Iran. This article is about political For the religion of Islam, see Islam. ... In Christianity, liberation theology is a school of theology that focuses on Jesus Christ as not only the Redeemer but also the Liberator of the oppressed. ... Lonely Planet logo Lonely Planet Publications (usually known as Lonely Planet or LP for short) claims to be the largest independently owned travel guidebook publisher in the world. ...

In Truth and Narrative, he has radically deconstructed the essentialist conception of Islam projected by Orientalists and Islamists alike. Instead he has posited, in what he calls a “polyfocal” conception of Islam, three competing discourses and institutions of authority – which he terms “nomocentric” (law-based), “logocentric” (reason-based) and “homocentric” (human-based) – vying for power and competing for legitimacy. The historical dynamics among these three readings of “Islam”, he concludes, constitutes the moral, political and intellectual history of Muslims. Dabashi’s most influential theory concerning the contemporary rise of Islamism is thus the predominance of the medieval juridical (nomocentric) dimension of Islam, at the grave cost of eliminating both its philosophical and mystical alternatives, but in effective contestation with European colonialism. The result is the formation of a double bind: the worst consequences of European colonialism conditioning and confounding the rise of medieval Islamic theocracies in the guise of modern nation-states such as the Islamic Republic of Iran. This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... For people named Islam, see Islam (name). ... Orientalism is the study of Near and Far Eastern societies and cultures, by Westerners. ... Islamism is a political ideology derived from the conservative religious views of Muslim fundamentalism. ... Discourse is a term used in semantics as in discourse analysis, but it also refers to a social conception of discourse, often linked with the work of French philosopher Michel Foucault (1926-1984) and Jürgen Habermas The Theory of Communicative Action (1985). ... An institution is a group, tenet, maxim, or organization created by a group of humans. ... This article is about authority as a concept. ... Much of the recent sociological debate on power revolves around the issue of the constraining and/or enabling nature of power. ... The word legitimacy comes from the Latin word legitimare and it has two uses: Legitimacy (political science) is variously defined, but refers in general to the peoples acceptance of a law, ruling, or a regime itself as valid. ... This article is about the use of the moral in storytelling. ... Politics is the process by which decisions are made within groups. ... “Literati” redirects here. ... A Muslim is a believer in or follower of Islam. ... The word theory has a number of distinct meanings in different fields of knowledge, depending on their methodologies and the context of discussion. ... Look up contemporary in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times. ... Mysticism (ancient Greek mysticon = secret) is meditation, prayer, or theology focused on the direct experience of union with divinity, God, or Ultimate Reality, or the belief that such experience is a genuine and important source of knowledge. ... For other uses, see Europe (disambiguation). ... It has been suggested that Benign colonialism be merged into this article or section. ... Max Barry set up Jennifer Government: NationStates, a game on the World Wide Web inspired by, and promoting, his novel Jennifer Government. ...

Among his other influential work — which has been translated into many languages — are his essays Artist without Borders (2005), Women without Headache (2005), For the Last Time Civilization (2001) and "The End of Islamic Ideology" (2000).^[5]

Hamid Dabashi is also the author of numerous other significant articles and public speeches, ranging in their subject matters from Islamism, feminism, globalised empire and ideologies and strategies of resistance, to visual and performing arts in a global context. This article is about political For the religion of Islam, see Islam. ... Feminists redirects here. ... This article is about the political and historical term. ... An ideology is a collection of ideas. ... Vision can refer to: Visual perception is one of the senses. ... The performing arts are those forms of art which differ from the plastic arts insofar as the former uses the artists own body, face and presence as a medium, and the latter uses materials such as clay, metal or paint which can be molded or transformed to create some...

In his Theology of Discontent Dabashi coined the term “colonial modernity," which refers to the paradoxical reception of the European project of Enlightenment modernity by the rest of the world, whereby non-Europeans are assigned subjectness precisely at the moment of the denial of their historical agency.^[6] In his essay "For the Last Time: Civilizations", he has also posited the binary opposition between “Islam and the West” as a major narrative strategy of raising a fictive centre for European modernity and lowering the rest of the world as peripheral to that centre.^[7] A project is a temporary endeavour undertaken to create a product or service[1]. // The word project comes from the Latin word projectum from projicere, to throw something forwards which in turn comes from pro-, which denotes something that precedes the action of the next part of the word in... The Enlightenment (French: ; German: ; Italian: ; Portuguese: ) was an eighteenth century movement in European and American philosophy — some classifications also include 17th century philosophy (usually called the Age of Reason). ... Modernity is a term used to describe the condition of being modern. Since the term modern is used to describe a wide range of periods, modernity must be understood in its context. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Human agency is the capacity for human beings to make choices and to impose those choices on the world on a collective basis, usually through democratic means. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Computer hardware. ...

Dabashi’s late colleague and friend Edward Said spoke of Dabashi's scholarship as one sparkling "with verve and a sometimes punishing wit...Encyclopedic in its scope, informal in tone, shrewd in its interpretation, [his work is] indispensable...the perfect guide.^[8] Edward Wadie Saïd, Arabic: , , (1 November 1935 – 25 September 2003) was a Palestinian-American literary theorist and Palestinian activist. ...

Furthermore, the British newspaper, The Guardian, wrote that "the grand clash of civilizations and ideologies [over "Islam and the West"] will increasingly take place within the west, with such writers and intellectuals as Dabashi".^[9] For other uses, see Guardian. ...

Philosophy

Among the distinctive aspects of Dabashi’s thinking are a philosophical preoccupation with geopolitics and the transaesthetics of emerging art forms that correspond to it. Dabashi’s principle work in which his political and aesthetic philosophy becomes historically anchored is his work on the rise of national cinema. There he contends that the only way out of the paradox of colonial modernity is the creative constitution of the postcolonial subject via a critical conversation with the historical predicament of the colonial subject. Dabashi argues that it is on the aesthetic site that the postcolonial subject must articulate the politics of her emancipation. In this respect, Dabashi’s major theoretical contribution is the collapsing of the binary opposition between the creative and the critical, the true and the beautiful, the poetics and the politics etc. On the colonial site, Dabashi argues in a memorable dialogue with Nietzsche and Heidegger, the Will to Power becomes the will to resist power. Geopolitics is the study which analyses geography, history and social science with reference to international politics. ... This article is about the philosophical concept of Art. ... Aesthetics (or esthetics) (from the Greek word αισθητική) is a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of beauty. ... For other uses, see Philosophy (disambiguation). ... Postcolonial theory is a literary theory or critical approach that deals with literature produced in countries that were once, or are now, colonies of other countries. ... A critic (derived from the ancient Greek word krites meaning a judge) is a person who offers a value judgement or an interpretation. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... In mathematics, theory is used informally to refer to a body of knowledge about mathematics. ... Look up Creative in Wiktionary, the free dictionary The term creative can refer to: Creativity is defined as the ability to be creative. ... A critic (derived from the ancient Greek word krites meaning a judge) is a person who offers a value judgement or an interpretation. ... When someone sincerely agrees with an assertion, they might claim that it is the truth. ... Look up beautiful in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Aristotles Poetics aims to give an account of poetry. ... Aristotles Politics (Greek Πολιτικά) is a work of political philosophy. ... Friedrich Nietzsche, 1882 Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 - August 25, 1900) was a highly influential German philosopher. ... Martin Heidegger Martin Heidegger (September 26, 1889 – May 26, 1976) was a German philosopher. ... Friedrich Nietzsche, 1882 Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 - August 25, 1900) was a highly influential German philosopher. ...

In an essay on Qur’anic hermeneutics, “In the Absence of the Face” (2000), Dabashi has also taken the Derridian correspondence between the signifier and the signified and expanded it from what he considers its “Christian Christological” context and read it through a Judeo-Islamic frame of reference in which, Dabashi proposes, there is a fundamental difference between a sign and a signifier, a difference that points to a metaphysical system of signification that violently force-feed meaning into otherwise resistant and unruly signs. It is from this radical questioning of the legislated semantics of signs incarcerated as signifiers that Dabashi has subsequently developed a notion of non-Aristotelian mimesis, as best articulated in his essay on Persian Passion Play, "Ta’ziyeh: A Theater of Protest" (2005). Here he proposes that in Persian Passion Play, we witness an instantaneous, non-metaphysical and above all transitory, correspondence between the signifier and the signified and thus the modus operandi of the mimesis is not predicated on a permanent correspondence in any act of representation. There are serious philosophical implications to this particular mode of non-representational representation that Dabashi has extensively examined in his essays on the work of the prominent artist Shirin Neshat. Dabashi’s political dedication to the Palestinian cause, and his work on Palestinian cinema, has an added aesthetic dimension in which he is exploring the crisis of mimesis in national traumas that defy any act of visual, literary, or performative representation. The Quran (Arabic: al-qurān literally the recitation; also called Al Qurān Al KarÄ«m or The Noble Quran; or transliterated Quran, Koran, and less commonly Alcoran) is the holy book of Islam. ... Hermeneutics may be described as the development and study of theories of the interpretation and understanding of texts. ... For other uses, see Christian (disambiguation). ... Judaism is the religious culture of the Jewish people. ... Plato (Left) and Aristotle (right), by Raphael (Stanza della Segnatura, Rome) Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy concerned with explaining the ultimate nature of reality, being, and the world. ... Look up signs in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. ... The word notion can refer to: meaning or sense in common parlance, it depends on the context Notion, the philosophical concept Notion, the mathematical concept Notions, the Winchester slang Notion, accessories used in the sewing industry. ... This article needs cleanup. ... Modus operandi (often used in the abbreviated form MO) is a Latin phrase, approximately translated as mode of operation. ... In politics, representation describes how residents of a country are empowered in the government. ... The term Palestinian has other usages, for which see definitions of Palestinian. ... Aesthetics (or esthetics) (from the Greek word αισθητική) is a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of beauty. ...

Dabashi’s primarily feminist concerns are articulated in a series of essays that he has written on contemporary literary, visual and performing arts. There his major philosophical preoccupation is with the emergence of a mode of transaesthetics (“art without border”) that remains politically relevant, socially engaged and above all gender conscious. In his philosophical reflections, he is in continues conversation with Jean Baudrillard, the distinguished French philosopher, and his notion of “transaesthetics of indifference”. Contrary to Baudrillard, Dabashi argues that art must and continues to make a difference and empower the disenfranchised. Gender in common usage refers to the sexual distinction between male and female. ... Jean Baudrillard (July 29, 1929 – March 6, 2007) (IPA pronunciation: [1]) was a French cultural theorist, philosopher, political commentator, and photographer. ...

In a critical conversation with Immanuel Kant, the founding father of European philosophical modernity, Dabashi has articulated the range of social and aesthetic parameters now defining the terms of a global reconfiguration of the sublime and the beautiful—in terms radically distanced from their inaugural articulation by Kant. His essays on transaesthetics, where these ideas are articulated, have been published in many languages by major European museums. Kant redirects here. ... For the band, see Sublime (band), or their third album Sublime (album). ... The Louvre Museum in Paris, one of the largest and most famous museums in the world. ...

So far in his political thought, Dabashi has been concerned with the emerging patterns of global domination and strategies of regional resistance to them. Equally important to Dabashi’s thinking is the global geopolitics of labour and capital migration. Domination is a supreme or preeminate control, rule, or governing; plural dominion. ... In classical economics and all micro-economics labour is a measure of the work done by human beings and is one of three factors of production, the others being land and capital. ... Not to be confused with capitol. ... Look up migration in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Film and art

Hamid Dabashi

Hamid Dabashi has been principal advisor for many globally recognized artists and filmmakers; most recently he was the chief consultant to Ridley Scott in his making of Kingdom of Heaven ^[10] (2005, Fox Twentieth Century, Hollywood, USA). Scott defended his film by saying that it was approved and verified by Dabashi, he also said that in his opinion, Dabashi is "an important man in New York"^[11]. Image File history File links Dabashi. ... Image File history File links Dabashi. ... Sir Ridley Scott (born November 30, 1937 in South Shields, South Tyneside) is a British film director and producer. ... The Kingdom of Heaven (or the Kingdom of God, Hebrew מלכות השמים, malkhut hashamayim, Greek basileia tou theou) is a key concept detailed in all the three major monotheistic religions of the world — Islam, Judaism and Christianity. ... ...

Dabashi was the chief consultant to Hany Abu Assad's Golden Globe awarded for best foreign language film and an Academy Award nominee in the same category Paradise Now (2005), and Shirin Neshat’s Women without Men (2006). Hany Abu-Assad (b. ... The Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures and television programs, given out each year during a formal dinner. ... Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ... Paradise Now (Arabic: ) is a 2005 film directed by Hany Abu-Assad about two Palestinian men preparing for a suicide attack in Israel. ... Shirin Neshat (born 1957, Qazvin, Iran) is a contemporary visual artist who lives in New York. ...

Professor Dabashi has also served as jury member on many international art and film festivals, most recently the Locarno International Festival in Switzerland. In the context of his commitment to advancing trans-national art and independent world cinema, he is the founder of Dreams of a Nation, a Palestinian Film Project, dedicated to preserving and safeguarding Palestinian Cinema.^[12] The term Palestinian has other usages, for which see definitions of Palestinian. ...

As a theorist of trans-aesthetics (“art without border”), his articles and essays on the relationship between art and politics have been featured, translated to many languages, and published by museums and cultural institutes in Europe. For his contributions to Iranian cinema, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, the Iranian film-maker called Dabashi "a rare cultural critic".^[13] </gallery> Image:http://www. ...

Allegations of Anti-Semitism

Professor Dabashi has been criticized for the following quote which was part of an article he wrote for the Egyptian Al-Ahram Weekly. Referring to Israelis, he wrote: “Half a century of systematic maiming and murdering of another people has left its deep marks on the faces of these people. The way they talk, the way they walk, the way they handle objects, the way they greet each other, the way they look at the world. There is an endemic prevarication to this machinery, a vulgarity of character that is bone-deep and structural to the skeletal vertebrae of its culture."^[14].

Political activism

Chiefly informing Hamid Dabashi’s intellectual preoccupations in these and his other works are his moral commitments to political activism. Although he has achieved academic stardom, he is among an emerging group of peace and anti-war activists that challenge the scholarly isolationism of the academic community and seeks to re-think the social production of knowledge and the full range of their political implications and practical consequences. What distinguishes Professor Dabashi even in his political activism is his uncompromising critique of all forms of theocracies (Islamic, Christian, Hindu, Jewish or any other), any form of violence in which preemptive wars and pro-active terrorism are in fact identical in their destructive consequences. While he is not teaching world cinema, comparative literature, and social and intellectual history at Columbia University, he is an anti-war activist like other high-profile academics such as his late colleague and friend Edward Said at Columbia University. Similar to other American academics who are anti-war activists, like Noam Chomsky, Juan Cole, Norman Finkelstein and Howard Zinn, Hamid Dabashi’s activism has sparked criticism by neoconservatives in the United States, while earning him support ^[15] from many in academia^[16] as well as praise from the American anti-war movement.^[17] Activism, in a general sense, can be described as involvement in action to bring about change, be it social, political, environmental, or other change. ... Plato is credited with the inception of academia: the body of knowledge, its development and transmission across generations. ... A peace dove, widely known as a symbol for peace, featuring an olive branch in the doves beak. ... 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Selected bibliography

Islamic and Iranian studies

• 2007 Iran: A People Interrupted. New York, New Press. [17]
• 2005 Theology of Discontent: The Ideological Foundations of the Islamic Revolution in Iran. (Second Edition) with a New Introduction. New York, New York University Press (1993). New Edition, New Brunswick, NJ, Transaction Publishers.[18].
• 2005 "Ignaz Goldziher and the Question Concerning Orientalism,” as an Introduction to a new Edition of Ignaz Goldziher’s Muslim Studies. New Brunswick, NJ, Transaction Publishers. [19]
• 2000 “The End of Islamic Ideology,” Social Research. Volume 67, Number 2, Summer 2000. pp. 475-518. [20]
• 1999 Staging a Revolution: The Art of Persuasion in the Islamic Republic of Iran. (With Peter Chelkowski). London, Edward Booth-Clibborn Editions.
• 1993 "Historical Conditions of Persian Sufism during the Seljuk Period." In Leonard Lewisohn (ed.), Classical Persian Sufism: From Its Origins to Rumi. London and New York, Khaniqahi Nimatallahi Publishers.
• 1992 Authority in Islam: From the Rise of Muhammad to the Establishment of the Umayyads. Second Edition. New Brunswick, NJ & London, Transaction Books. Winner of the 1990 Association of American Publishers Award in the category of religion and philosophy.
• 1989 Expectation of the Millennium: Shi’ism in History. With S.H. Nasr and S.V.R. Nasr. New York, State University of New York Press.
• 1989 "By What Authority? —The Formation of Khomeini's Revolutionary Discourse, 1964-1977." Social Compass, vol. 36, no. 4, December 1989.
• 1988 Shi’ism: Doctrines, Thought, and Spirituality. With S.H. Nasr, and S.V.R. Nasr. New York, State University of New York Press.
• 1986 "Symbiosis of Religious and Political Authorities in Islam." In Thomas Robbins and Roland Robertson (eds.), Church-State Relations: Tensions and Transitions. New Brunswick, NJ, and London, Transaction Books.
• 1986 "The Sufi Doctrine of 'The Perfect Man' and a View of the Hierarchical Structure of the Islamic Culture." Islamic Quarterly, vol. 30, no. 2, Second Quarter, 1986.
• 1989 "Modern Shi’i Thought". The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modem Islamic World.

Ignaz Goldziher (June 22, 1850 - 1921), was a Jewish Hungarian orientalist and is widely considered among the founders of modern Islamic studies in Europe. ...

Islamic philosophy

• 1999 Truth and Narrative: The Untimely Thoughts of Ayn al-Qudat al-Hamadhani. London, Curzon Press.
• 1996 "The Philosopher/Vizier: Khwajah Nasir al-Din al-Tusi and His Isma’ili Connection." In Farhad Daftari (ed.), Studies in Isma’ili History and Doctrines. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996.
• 1994 "Khwajah Nasir al-Din al-Tusi: The Philosopher/Vizier." In Oliver Leaman (ed.), A History of Islamic Philosophy. London, Routledge.
• 1994 "Mir Damad and the School of Isfahan.” In Oliver Leaman (ed.), A History of Islamic Philosophy. London, Routledge.
• 1994 "Ayn al-Qudat: That Individual." In Oliver Leaman (ed.), A History of Islamic Philosophy. London, Routledge.
• 1990 "Danish-namah-yi AIa'i”. Encyclopedia Iranica.
• 1990 "Mir Damad". The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Visual, performing arts and aesthetics

• 2005 “Artists without Borders: On Contemporary Iranian Art” in Octavio Zaya (Ed), Contemporary Iranian Artists: Since the Revolution (San Sebastian, Spain: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2005). In English, Spanish, and Catalan.
• 2005 “Shirin Neshat: Transcending the Boundaries of an Imaginative Geography” in Octavio Zaya (Ed), The Last Word. San Sebastian, Spain, Museum of Modern Art. In English and Spanish.
• 2005 “Women without Headaches: On Shirin Neshat’s ‘Women without Men.’” Berlin, Germany, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart. In English and German.
• 2005 “Ta’ziyeh: Theater of Protest,” in The Drama Review (TDR). [21]
• 2002 “Bordercrossings: Shirin Neshat’s Body of Evidence,” Catalogue of Castello di Rivoli Retrospective on Shirin Neshat. Turin, Italy. January 2002.
• 2000 “In the Absence of the Face,” Social Research, Volume 67, Number 1. Spring 2000. pp. 127-185. [22]
• 1993 Parviz Sayyad's Theater of Diaspora. Costa Mesa, CA, Mazda.

World cinema

• 2006 Dreams of a Nation: On Palestinian Cinema]. Edited, with an Introduction. London and New York, Verso. [23]
• 2006 Masters and Masterpieces of Iranian Cinema. Washington DC, Mage. [24]
• 2004 Yami Karano Kobo] (The Light Arisen from the Darkness: On Mohsen Makhmalbaf) —in Japanese, Tokyo. [25]
• 2002 “Dead Certainties: Makhmalbaf’s Early Cinema,” in Richard Tapper (Eds), Studies in Iranian Cinema. London, I.B. Tauris.
• 2001 Close up: Iranian Cinema, Past, Present, Future. London and New York, Verso, 2001. [Translated into Arabic, Japanese, Spanish, and Turkish].
• 1999 “Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s Moment of Innocence,” in Rose Issa and Sheila Whitaker (Eds), Life and Art: The New Iranian Cinema. London, The British Film Institute, 1999. pp. 115-128.

Persian and comparative literature

• 2003 "Nima Yushij and Constitution of a National subject," Oriente Moderno, Volume xxii (lxxxiii), 2003.
• 1994 "Of Poetics, Politics and Ethics: The Legacy of Parvin E’tesami. In Heshmat Moayyad (ed.), Once a Dewdrop Accosted a Rose: Essays on the Poetry of Parvin E’tesami. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers.
• 1988 "Forough Farrokhzad and the Formative Forces of Iranian Culture." In Michael C. Hillmann (ed.), Forough Farrokhzad: A Quarter Century Later. Literature East and West.
• 1985 "The Poetics of the Politics: Commitment in Modern Persian Literature." Iranian Studies, Special Issue, The Sociology of the Iranian Writer, ed. by Michael C. Hillmann, vol. 18, nos. 2-4, Spring-Autumn, 1985.
• Year? "Persian Literature" for The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modem Islamic World.

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Postcolonial theory

• 2001 “For the Last Time: Civilizations,” International Sociology. September 2001. Volume 16 (3): 361-368. [26]
• 2001 “No soy subalternista,” in Ileana Rodriguez (Ed), Convergencia de Tiempos: Estudios subalternos / contextos latinoamericanos estado, cultura, subalternidad. Atlanta, GA: Editions Rodopi b.v. 2001. pp. 49-59.

References

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Homepages

• Hamid Dabashi's Official Web site
• Hamid Dabashi's academic site at Columbia University
• Persian Biography of Hamid Dabashi, Makhmalbaf Film House.

Op-eds

• Thinking beyond the US invasion of Iran, Al-Ahram.
• Lessons from Lebanon: Rethinking National Liberation Movements, Al-Ahram. Spanish Translation, Lecciones de Líbano: repensar los movimientos de liberación nacional.
• How Do we Sleep while Beirut is Burning, Al-Ahram. Longer version: Part One and Part Two.
• Native informers and the making of the American empire, Al-Ahram. Review in The Guardian. Review and Interview in Chronicle of Higher Education, [27], [28].
• Iran: Let the Democratic Process Work, Asia Times.
• Islam and Globanalisation Al-Ahram. Polish Translation.
• Moment of Myth (Obituary on Edward Said), Asia Society.
• Forget reds under the bed, there's Arabs in the attic' , Times Higher Education Supplement.
• For a Fistful of Dust: A Passage to Palestine, Al-Ahram.
• Professor Aghajari's Case, The New York Review of Books.

Articles

• The End of Islamic Ideology, Social Research.
• In the Absence of the Face, Social Research.
• Representations of Privacy in Literature and Film, Social Research.
• Lipstick Jihadists: Books That Will Misguide You, Publio.

Kingdom of Heaven

• Interview with Professor Hamid Dabashi about the Hollywood film 'Kingdom of Heaven', by Christianity Today.
• Kingdom of Heaven, by Independent Catholic News.

Iranian cinema

• Review of Close Up: Iranian Cinema, Past Present and Future by London Review of Book.
• Review of Close Up: Iranian Cinema, Past Present and Future by Iran Bulletin.
• Review of Close Up: Iranian Cinema, Past Present and Future by Lina Khatib.
• Close Up: Iranian Cinema, Past Present and Future, first chapter.
• Selves and Others Inspired by Dabashi's Close Up: Iranian Cinema, Past Present and Future.
• Film Review Inspired by Dabashi's Close Up: Iranian Cinema, Past Present and Future.
• Kiarostami’s portrayal of Kurds citing Dabashi's Close Up: Iranian Cinema, Past Present and Future.

Palestinian cinema

• Movies From Across The Jordan, The Jewish Week.
• A Report of Dreams of a Nation - A Palestinian Film Festival, Senses of Cinema.

Staging a revolution

• Review of Staging a Revolution: The Art of Persuasion in the Islamic Republic of Iran by Daniel Pipes.
• Staging a Revolution: The Art of Persuasion in the Islamic Republic of Iran, first chapter.

Interviews

• A Collision of Prose and Politics by Richard Byrne, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Peeking Under the Cover, Discussion Forum.

• Lolita and Beyond--Foaad Khosmood interviews Hamid Dabashi, Znet.

• Judith Butler, Hamid Dabashi and Scholars United, in the San Francisco Chronicle.

• Interview with Hamid Dabashi about the Hollywood film 'Kingdom of Heaven', by Christianity Today.

• Interview with Hamid Dabashi in the documentary film American Zeitgeist (the spirit of the time) about post 9/11 United States.

• Shocking and Awful: A Grassroots Response to War and Occupation, featuring interviews with Noam Chomsky, Hamid Dabashi and Tariq Ali.

• Dick Gordon interviews Hamid Dabashi about the Shiites of Iraq: An Ancient Minority's Modern Challenge, NPR Radio.

• Hamid Dabashi's interview with the American PBS news, in the very beginning of the US-led war on Iraq.

• Interview with Hamid Dabashi on PBS News about the war in Iraq.

• Interview with Hamid Dabashi with PBS News about security in the occupied Iraq.

• Another interview with PBS news regarding the civil unrest in the occupied Iraq with Hamid Dabashi and Juan Cole can be seen here.

• Interview with Hamid Dabashi by Asia Society.

• Interview with Hamid Dabashi by Nigel Parry.

• Interpreting Islam: War and peace, Los Angeles Times.

• Report on "What is Religion For?" -- Hamid Dabashi, Jewish Public Forum Seminar.

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Interviews in Persian

• Hamid Dabashi on Susan Sontag.

• Hamid Dabashi interviewed by Mehr News about the pending attack on Iran (April 2006).

Miscellaneous

• Hamid Dabashi's film choices on Sight & Sound's Top Ten Poll.
• Hamid Dabashi visits Birzeit University.
• Hamid Dabashi's Books on Amazon
• Turkey, Lebanon and Hezbollah, The New Anatolian, Turkey (reference to Hamid Dabashi).