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The visual possibility of seeing the historical person (as opposed to the eternal Qur'anic man) on screen is arguably the single most important event allowing Iranians access to modernity.
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While [European] national cultures were concocted to distinguish one economic unit of capital from another, civilizational thinking was invented to unify these cultures against their colonial consequences. Islamic, Indian, or African civilizations were invented contrapuntally by Orientalism…in order to match, balance and thus authenticate 'Western Civilization'.

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Shi'ism is a religion of doing nothing. It can never succeed without doing nothing. When it succeeds, Shi'ism is still nothing. In the Islamic context at large, it partakes in the masculinism of its transcendental deity and in the Iranian context in particular it exacerbates itself by partaking in monarchical masculinity.

Hamid Dabashi

Hamid Dabashi

Hamid Dabashi

Born: June 15, 1951 (age 70)

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)

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