Hamid Dabashi Professions : ProfessorBorn : June 15, 1951 Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by Hamid Dabashi 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'. Hamid Dabashi islamicorderthinking 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. Hamid Dabashi important-eventshistoricalmen This is Not Another Revolution. This is a Civil Rights Movement Hamid Dabashi revolutionmovementrights What is peculiar about his art is that he’s both a rootedly Iranian artist in terms of his landscape, his urban sensibilities, his cinematography, but he’s also managed to raise those Iranian aspects to moments of universality. Hamid Dabashi entertainment Similar Authors Bryan Stevenson professor Bruce Greenwald professor Bruce Ames professor Brian Wansink professor Brian Schmidt professor Brian Martin professorAll Authors
