Quote of the day
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
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)