Biography Hamid Dabashi
Hamid Dabashi is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and the director of Graduate Studies at the Center for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. His research interests include the comparative study of cultures, Islamic intellectual history, and the social and intellectual history of Iran, both modern and medieval. His publications include Authority in Islam: From the Rise of Muhammad to the Establishment of the Umayyads (1989), Theology of Discontent: The Ideological Foundation of the Islamic Revolution in Iran (1993), Truth and Narrative: The Untimely Thoughts of Ayn Al-Qudat Al-Hamadhani (1999), Staging a Revolution: The Art of Persuasion in the Islamic Republic of Iran (with Peter Chelkowski, 1999), and Close Up: Iranian Cinema, Past, Present, Future (2001).
Witte de With organizes in collaboration with V2_ a symposium focusing on the issues debated in the Under Fire mailing list in the period January – April, 2004. The main speakers are John Armitage, Asef Bayat, Susan Buck-Morss (through internet) …Read more
Under Fire is a year-long project initiated by Jordan Crandall that consists of a series of organized discussions that will occur online and in Rotterdam, throughout the year 2004. Co-editors Under Fire I: Asef Bayat, Susan Buck-Morss, Hamid Dabashi, Brian …Read more
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