Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Hamid Dabashi

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American professor Hamid Dabashi.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Hamid Dabashi

Hamid Dabashi is an Iranian-American professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York City.

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.
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'.
This is Not Another Revolution. This is a Civil Rights Movement — © Hamid Dabashi
This is Not Another Revolution. This is a Civil Rights Movement
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