#hamid dabashi

[aboutanancientenquiry]

“Persophilia”

“From the Biblical period and Classical Antiquity to the rise of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, aspects of Persian culture have been integral to European history. A diverse constellation of European artists, poets, and thinkers have looked to Persia for inspiration, finding there a rich cultural counterpoint and frame of reference. Interest in all things Persian was no passing fancy but an enduring fascination that has shaped not just Western views but the self-image of Iranians up to the present day. Persophilia maps the changing geography of connections between Persia and the West over the centuries and shows that traffic in ideas about Persia and Persians did not travel on a one-way street. How did Iranians respond when they saw themselves reflected in Western mirrors? Expanding on Jürgen Habermas’s theory of the public sphere, and overcoming the limits of Edward Said, Hamid Dabashi answers this critical question by tracing the formation of a civic discursive space in Iran, seeing it as a prime example of a modern nation-state emerging from an ancient civilization in the context of European colonialism. The modern Iranian public sphere, Dabashi argues, cannot be understood apart from this dynamic interaction. Persophilia takes into its purview works as varied as Xenophon’s Cyropaedia and Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Handel’s Xerxes and Puccini’s Turandot, and Gauguin and Matisse’s fascination with Persian art. The result is a provocative reading of world history that dismantles normative historiography and alters our understanding of postcolonial nations.”

https://www.amazon.com/Persophilia-Persian-Culture-Global-Scene/dp/0674504690

Hamid Dabashi is Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.

#iran #persians #persophilia #hamid dabashi

[fourdramas]

"(...) [T]he moral bankruptcy of Habermas’s statement on Palestine marks a turning point in the colonial relationship between European philosophy and the rest of the world. The world has been awoken from the false slumber of European ethno-philosophy. Today, we owe this liberation to the global suffering of peoples such as the Palestinians, whose prolonged, historic heroism and sacrifices have finally dismantled the barefaced barbarity at the foundation of 'western civilisation'."

#palestine #israel palestine war #heidegger #zionism #philosophy #Hamid Dabashi #haberas #middle east eye #european philosophy #quote

[xtruss]

​​Francesca P. Albanese, An Italian International Lawyer, An Academic and The UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, is a legal scholar, the first woman to hold this pivotal position, and an all-round pain in the neck for “Terrorist, Fascist, War Criminal, Genocidal and Occupier Zionist 🐖 🐷 🐗” from Tel Aviv to London to New York. Today, she is the voice of the global conscience speaking truth to the vulgar warmongers committing atrocities in Gaza.

The bold, brilliant and thoroughly researched report Albanese recently issued, aptly titled 'Anatomy of a Genocide, has inspired much admiration around the globe for her tireless work - but also horror and fury among 🐖 Zionist Cunts who do not want Israel's genocide in Palestine to have such an eloquent, precise and detailed account.

This is the second such account after the one prepared by South Africa's legal team against the unfolding Israeli genocide at the International Court of Justice. That equally compelling document now foregrounds Albanese's report as two solid records holding the Israeli settler colony to account for the crime of genocide against the Palestinian people.

Fooled and deluded by the Israel lobby in the US, and by western media propaganda, “Terrorist, Fascist, War Criminal, Genocidal and Occupier Zionist 🐖 🐷 🐗” might be under the illusion that like the proverbial ostrich with its head in the sand, the world is blind to the Israeli state's savagery in Palestine - especially as the lobby has bought and paid for American politicians, who continue to procure weapons that fuel this horror.

Reports such as the one from Albanese, and legal documents such as that of South Africa, comprise a global indictment against a morally depraved and politically bankrupt ideology of theft, murder and mayhem, which lies at the roots of the Israeli settler colony.

What drives Albanese in this report are the facts on the ground, including children and their parents slaughtered in broad daylight. From Satan-Yahu in his garrison state, to the American and European leaders who have backed him, all are implicated in this historic report."

— ✍️ By Professor Hamid Dabashi

#Middle East Eye 👁️ #News 🗞️ #Francesca P. Albanese #Francesca P. Albanese | An Italian International Lawyer and Academic #The UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories 🇵🇸 #“Terrorist Fascist War Criminal Genocidal and Occupier Zionist 🐖 🐷 🐗” #✍️ By Professor Hamid Dabashi #Forever Palestine 🇵🇸 | Gaza | Gaza Genocide

[probablyasocialecologist]

Some 1.6 billion Muslims are held accountable for the criminal gang of ISIS and their likes by Islamophobic crowds in the United States and EU, ranging from widely popular comedians like Bill Maher to mass murderers like Anders Breivik. Did any one of these Muslims vote for ISIS or al-Qaeda to be their democratically elected officials? If Islam is to be held accountable for a small gang of Muslim criminals whom no one elected as their representatives, then why should Western liberal democracies not be held accountable for mass murderers like Tony Blair and George W. Bush who were in fact fairly and freely elected by UK and U.S. citizens as their representatives?

Hamid Dabashi, Europe and Its Shadows: Coloniality After Empire

#Europe and Its Shadows #islam

[fandomshatepeopleofcolor]

I'm already dreading the potential Oppenheimer sweep at the Oscars

I feel like I should take this question as the resident Oppenheimer hater 😅 But yes, it is sadly predictable that Oppenheimer will be rewarded with an Oscars sweep despite "glorifying mass murder" (Dr Hamid Dabashi's words, not mine). But, as sad as I am about it, it's also not suprising given Hollywood's role in promoting imperialist propaganda not just US imperialism but Western imperialism in general, lest we forget the time Gary Oldman won Best Actor for playing Winston "engineered a famine which murdered 3.8 million Bengalis and then denied responsibility by saying Indian people bred like rabbits" Churchill over Daniel Kalauuya who was nominated for his acting in Get Out.

Anyways, the Oscars was originally created to bust unions and as viewers, we should be boycotting it anyways. But in the meantime, all the best to all the people of colour who got nominated, and check out Hamid Dabashi's work, he's cool.

- mod sodapop

#oscars 2024 #oppenheimer #mod sodapop

[sethshead]

Remember when Columbia professor Hamid Dabashi savaged in very personal terms Azar Nafisi for doing something so awful as describing her experiences as a woman and professor of English literature in Iran? That is was fundamentally imperialist and orientalist to criticize a repressive theocracy?

Yeah, he still teaches at Columbia. God knows how many students he’s influenced with his reflexive, defensive shilling for a government that still beats teenage girls to death for showing a little hair.

[protoslacker]

That is the most recent legacy of Bernard Lewis. The invasion, occupation, and destruction of Iraq.  But Lewis’ affiliation with powers of death and destruction went much deeper than that. Afghanistan and Iraq are in ruins today, millions of Arabs and Muslims have been murdered, scarred for life, subjected to the indignity of military occupation and refugee camps, in no small measure because of the systemic maligning of Muslims Lewis advanced in his books and articles, and with them informed generations of imperial officers.

Hamid Dabashi in Aljazeera. Alas, poor Bernard Lewis, a fellow of infinite jest

On Bernard Lewis and ‘his extraordinary capacity for getting everything wrong

#bernard lewis #empire #war on the greatere middle east

[lesbian-moon-gf]

i'm watching black rain by imamura shohei as recommended by hamid dabashi. i can't explain the feelings i'm having. but i think having them is good.

#moon

[ferrolano-blog]

Imaginemos que Irán, Siria, Líbano o Turquía, plenamente respaldados, armados y protegidos diplomáticamente por Rusia y China, tuvieran la voluntad y los recursos para bombardear Tel Aviv durante tres meses, día y noche, asesinar a decenas de miles de israelíes, mutilar a otros tantos, dejar a millones de personas sin hogar, y convertir la ciudad en un montón de escombros inhabitables como está ocurriendo actualmente en Gaza... Preguntémonos qué harían EE UU, Reino Unido, la UE, Canadá, Australia y Alemania en particular en las 24 horas siguientes al ataque en este escenario ficticio... El orden internacional existente no toleraría ni un día este mencionado escenario ficticio... Frente a la brutalidad militar de EE UU, Europa, Australia, Canadá, y su respaldo sin fisuras a Israel, nosotros, las gentes indefensas del mundo, al igual que los y las palestinas, no contamos. Esto no es solo una realidad política, concierne también al imaginario moral y al universo filosófico de eso que se llama a sí mismo “Occidente”... Gracias a Gaza, se ha expuesto la quiebra ética de la filosofía europea (Hamid Dabashi, filósofo iraní, profesor en la Universidad de Columbia)

#colonialismoisraeli #guerradepalestina #crimencontralahumanidad #genocidio #miseriamoral

[aboutanancientenquiry]

“The Shahnameh

The Persian Epic as World Literature

Hamid Dabashi

Columbia University Press

The Shahnameh, an epic poem recounting the foundation of Iran across mythical, heroic, and historical ages, is the beating heart of Persian literature and culture. Composed by Abu al-Qasem Ferdowsi over a thirty-year period and completed in the year 1010, the epic has entertained generations of readers and profoundly shaped Persian culture, society, and politics. For a millennium, Iranian and Persian-speaking people around the globe have read, memorized, discussed, performed, adapted, and loved the poem. In this book, Hamid Dabashi brings the Shahnameh to renewed global attention, encapsulating a lifetime of learning and teaching the Persian epic for a new generation of readers. Dabashi insightfully traces the epic’s history, authorship, poetic significance, complicated legacy of political uses and abuses, and enduring significance in colonial and postcolonial contexts. In addition to explaining and celebrating what makes the Shahnameh such a distinctive literary work, he also considers the poem in the context of other epics, such as the Aeneid and the Odyssey, and critical debates about the concept of world literature. Arguing that Ferdowsi’s epic and its reception broached this idea long before nineteenth-century Western literary criticism, Dabashi makes a powerful case that we need to rethink the very notion of “world literature” in light of his reading of the Persian epic.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Hamid Dabashi is Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is a founding member of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. Among his most recent books are The World of Persian Literary Humanism (2015) and Persophilia: Persian Culture on the Global Scene (2016).”

Hamid Dabashi

#shahnameh #ferdowsi #iran #persian literature #hamid dabashi

[streetartusa]

Double Standards in Geopolitics

In a thought-provoking reflection, Hamid Dabashi (a professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University) encourages readers to imagine a fictional scenario where countries like Iran, Syria, Lebanon, or Turkey, supported by Russia and China, bomb Tel Aviv for three months. The grim portrayal includes the murder of tens of thousands, countless injuries, and millions left…

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OPENHEIMER

The following article, which I highly recommend, has a negative view of the film Openheimer, which you should read or listen and or both in the link beñpw:

Oppenheimer: The glorification of mass murder

(which I think he is, a mass murderer-MP) by Hamid Dabashi

Zelensky, Disgusting Man ... Only a joker would laugh at his own stupidity.

Who is this comedian mass murderer:

SCOTT RITTER: ZELENSKY TAKING IN F-16 CRAP...HERE IS WHY...

A curious 1961 English movie...

REF: 706 NOTES

#Youtube

[probablyasocialecologist]

The Israeli settler colony built on the broken but defiant back of Palestinians by a gang of European militant adventurists also calls itself a “democracy”—in fact “the only democracy in the Middle East.” Is that apartheid garrison state, built on the prototype of the apartheid South Africa, a model for the rest of the region? Zionism is the latest vestige of European colonialism—of the very trope of Europe—in the heart of the Arab world—and has nothing to do with Jews having a homeland in Palestine. Jews have always had a homeland in Palestine, and should always have a homeland in Palestine, along with their Muslim and Christian neighbors, in a free and democratic Palestine for all its citizens. But that is not what Zionism is. A European settler colonial project has demanded and exacted from Palestinians. What has that emblematic of European colonialism brought to our world—peace, prosperity, security?

Hamid Dabashi, Europe and Its Shadows: Coloniality After Empire

#Europe and Its Shadows #israel #palestine #zionism

[newswireml]

Opinion: The imprisonment of this actress is bigger than Iran#Opinion #imprisonment #actress #bigger #Iran

Opinion: The imprisonment of this actress is bigger than Iran#Opinion #imprisonment #actress #bigger #Iran

Editor’s Note: Hamid Dabashi is the author of “Iran Without Borders: Towards a Critique of the Postcolonial Nation,” and the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York. His most recent book is “The End of Two Illusions: Islam after the West” (University of California Press, 2022). The views expressed here are his own. Read more…

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“Since Seymour Hersh published an article in the New Yorker in April 2006 exposing an apparent Pentagon plan to attack Iran, an attack in which for the first time since Hiroshima the use of nuclear weapons was contemplated, Iran has become a focus of American attention. It was not always thus. As Gary Sick observes, before the Iranian hostage crisis, Iran hardly even evoked a stereotype for the U.S. citizen, not even in the way China, Egypt, or India did. At best, as Persia, it might suggest cats, carpets, and caviar. American awareness of Iran was characterized by a combination of ignorance and wholesale amnesia. For Hamid Dabashi, the invasion plan raised the question “of hegemony and Empire—one with or without the other” (“Native Informers”). Did the American empire have a hegemonic project or ideological agenda? Or was it just making a mess all over the world? Recent debates have focussed keenly on this question of the degree to which the American state knows what it is doing and consciously pursues imperialist aims. For Niall Ferguson, it is an empire that dare not speak its name, an “imperialism of anti-imperialism,” posing as liberationist (61). Hardt and Negri simply portray American domination as corresponding with economic domination. In his Empire trilogy (Blowback, Nemesis, and The Sorrows of Empire), Chalmers Johnson equates empire with militarism, based upon American armed forces stationed in foreign countries, whether in an advisory and support capacity, or in the 737 U.S. bases in some 130 countries that he counted in 2006 and described as “a planet-spanning baseworld” of foreign enclaves that function as parasitical neocolonies completely beyond the jurisdiction of the occupied nation (Nemesis 6; see also Blowback and The Sorrow of Empire). For Johnson, most U.S. imperialism operates as a “stealth imperialism” well below the sightlines of the American public (Blowback 65). American ignorance about their country’s operations also explains why attacks on Americans are greeted with cries of shock and outrage. In his analysis Johnson adopts the term “blowback,” first invented by officials of the CIA to refer to the unintended consequences of policies that were kept secret from the American people. What the daily press report as the malign acts of “terrorists” or “drug lords” or “rogue states” or “illegal arms merchants” often turn out to be blowback from earlier American operations (Blowback 8).”

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