Hamid Dabashi

@HamidDabashi

Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies & Comparative Lit -

New York, NY
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Joined July 2012
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    25 Mar 2016

    as telling wise folks that this noble soul is THE person to lead this nation!

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  2. May 25

    "واى خدا فرمون اومد!" Just read the legendary Iranin actor Nasser Malak Motiei (1930-2018) has passed away — he singularly defined an age, a cinema, a character type, and he immortalized the tragic hero Farmun,...

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  3. May 22

    “Palestinians and many other nations have countless such calamities to remember. The Wounded Knee Massacre of Lakota people on December 29, 1890, by the US military, the Jallianwala Bagh...

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  4. May 21

    When you read the New York Times pay twice as much attention to their pictures as you do their words — here to the left is the Iraqi leader Muqtada Sadr back in early 2000s when he was portrayed as an enemy of US, and...

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  5. May 18

    In moments of crisis such as the May 14 Israeli massacre of peaceful Palestinians in Gaza — always pause and go back to fierce theoretical insights into the racist colonialist roots of Zionism so you understand its varied manifestations better —...

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  6. May 17

    “We reach life, sir” — Palestinian Poet Rafeef Ziadah schools the racist ignorant Zionists from New York to London to Tel Aviv who ask Palestinians to stop hating— Rafeef Ziadah composed and performed this poem back in 2011 when US- and...

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  7. May 15

    Please listen to this music and share it with your friends — From every single note, from every glorious melodic twist of this magnificent piece oozes the unending love, unsurpassed affections, and enduring solidarity of Iranian people with...

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  8. May 14

    Instead of the news of all the ugly things happening around the world I thought sharing with you a beautiful thing — Mahmoud Darwish’s farewell poem for Edward Said — On this ugly day, let us look at some beautiful faces, hear a noble voice,...

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  9. May 13

    “The question was: Which books? There were always more I wanted to burn than we had time to film. I knew I wanted to include some of my favorites, like “Crime and Punishment,” “Song of...

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  10. May 12

    “In a world ravaged by the wanton cruelty of predatory capitalism - now most notoriously led by the imperial presidency of Donald Trump and his billionaires' cabinet, aided and abetted by their European and...

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  11. May 11

    Every decent human being on planet earth was for the Nuclear deal with Iran— every decent human being of course except for Trump and Netanyahu and their followers— Here is a video from two years ago when the Nuclear deal was about to be signed...

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  12. May 9

    Fact-checking Trump’s Speech withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal — everything he says is a lie — everything —

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  13. May 8

    These laughing hyaenas —the Zionists the Saudis and the US neocons are f**** with the wrong country — in their stupidity and ignorance they think they are fighting with the Iranian government — they are dead wrong — they are picking up a fight...

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  14. May 8

    Every dirty treacherous ugly and pernicious act happening in the world just wait for a few days and the ugly name of “Israel” will pup...

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  15. May 3

    In the midst of these cacophonous times, we just hit the 40th anniversary of the publication of Edward W. Said’s magisterial text, Orientalism — Just out on Aljazeera my thoughts...

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  16. May 2

    This ridiculous man, this notorious, corrupt , criminally insane creature, this laughing stock of every decent civilized human being on planet earth, this pathetic pathological liar, this vulgar vicious charlatan, this...

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  17. Apr 30

    Here is the bastard Pathological liar Benjamin Netanyahu back in 2002 lying through his teeth that “there is no question whatsoever that Saddam is seeking and working and is advancing towards the development of nuclear weapon—no question...

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  18. Apr 27

    Golbarg Bashi will present and read her beautiful book P is for Palestine: A Palestine Alphabet Book for children and families at the Arab American Association of New York — located at the...

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  19. Apr 27

    “Can Syrian or Iraqi or Palestinian or Afghan or Somali refugees' suffering be turned to art - and to what effect? Day in and day out, we are flooded with pictures, news, videos, and...

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  20. Apr 26

    Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi’s new film, “Everybody Knows” will open and Compete at Cannes Film Festival early next month—...

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  21. Apr 23

    Last week Newsweek asked me to write a piece on the US-led bombing of Syria — it is just out: “Syria is now a quagmire. Anything and anyone, any military force or political project that comes near it,...

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