Quote of the day
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
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)