Quote of the day
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
Hamid Dabashi

Born: June 15, 1951 (age 73)
Bio: Hamid Dabashi is an Iranian-American Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York City.
Known for:
- Iran: A People Interrupted (2007)
- Close up (2001)
- Can Non-Europeans Think? (2015)
- The Arab Spring: The End of Postcolonialism (2012)
- Theology of discontent (1993)