Hamid Dabashi

Tags: Philosopher.

Hamid Dabashi (Persian: حمید دباشی‎; born 1951) known as ابو حمید دباشی فلسطینی is an Iranian-American Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York City.He is the author of over twenty books. Among them are his Theology of Discontent; several books on Iranian cinema; Staging a Revolution; an edited volume Dreams of a Nation: On Palestinian Cinema; and his one-volume analysis of Iranian history Iran: A People Interrupted.

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birth date

1951-06-15

birth place

Pahlavi dynasty, Ahvaz

era

20th-century philosophy, Contemporary philosophy

influenced by

Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Sigmund Freud, Theodor W. Adorno, Ahmad Shamloo, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, Emmanuel Levinas, Frantz Fanon, Edward Said

main interest

Aesthetics, Literary theory, Culture theory, Sociology of culture, Liberation_theory

philosophicalSchool

Postcolonialism, Critical theory

region

Western philosophy