Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
Hamid Dabashi

Born: June 15, 1951 (age 74)
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)