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Hamid Dabashi Quotes

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,

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
Islamic, Thinking, Order
"For the Last Time: Civilizations". International Sociology, Volume 16, Issue 3, September 01, 2001.

This is Not Another Revolution. This is a Civil Rights Movement

Hamid Dabashi
Rights, Movement, Revolution

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
Men, Important Events, Historical
Hamid Dabashi (2001). “Close Up: Iranian Cinema, Past, Present, and Future”, p.15, Verso

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