Hamid Dabashi

Hamid Dabashi
Born (1951-06-15) June 15, 1951 (age 73)
NationalityIranian
Alma materUniversity of Tehran
University of Pennsylvania
SpouseGolbarg Bashi (ex-wife)[1]
Era20th / 21st-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolPostcolonialism, critical theory
InstitutionsColumbia University
Doctoral advisorPhilip Rieff
Main interests
Liberation theology, literary theory, aesthetics, cultural theory, sociology of culture
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; born 1951) is an Iranian-American professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York City.[2]

He is the author of over twenty books.[3] Among them are Theology of Discontent, several books on Iranian cinema, Staging a Revolution, the edited volume Dreams of a Nation: On Palestinian Cinema, and his one-volume analysis of Iranian history, Iran: A People Interrupted.[4]

  1. ^ Golbarg Bashi and Hamid Dabashi (March 2009). "Sal-e No Mobarak!". Tehran Avenue. Archived from the original on 2 February 2014. Retrieved 25 January 2014.
  2. ^ Official website
  3. ^ Hamid Dabashi's Official Web Site Archived February 7, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Iran: A People Interrupted