Hamid Dabashi

Hamid Dabashi is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York. He has written twenty books, edited four, and is the author of over 100 essays, articles, and book reviews in major scholarly and peer reviewed journals on subjects ranging from Iranian Studies, medieval and modern Islam, comparative literature, world cinema, and the philosophy of art (trans-aesthetics). His books include Authority in Islam; Theology of Discontent; Truth and Narrative; Close Up: Iranian Cinema, Past, Present, Future; Staging a Revolution: The Art of Persuasion in the Islamic Republic of Iran; Masters and Masterpieces of Iranian Cinema; Iran: A People Interrupted; Islamic Liberation Theology: Resisting the Empire; Post-Orientalism: Knowledge and Power in Time of Terror; Iran, the Green Movement, and the USA: The Fox and the Paradox; and, most recently, The Arab Spring: The End of Postcolonialism. A selected sample of his writing is co-edited by Andrew Davison and Himadeep Muppidi, The World Is My Home: A Hamid Dabashi Reader. He is a founding member of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, a founding member of the Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University, and the founder of Dreams of a Nation, a Palestinian Film Project, dedicated to preserving and safeguarding Palestinian Cinema.