Hamid Dabashi Philosopher

Hamid Dabashi (Persian: حمید دباشی‎; born 1951) is an Iranian-American Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York City.He is the author of over twenty books. Among them are his Theology of Discontent; several books on Iranian cinema; Staging a Revolution; an edited volume, Dreams of a Nation: On Palestinian Cinema; and his one-volume analysis of Iranian history Iran: A People Interrupted.

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Birth date	June 15, 1951
Birth place	Pahlavi dynasty , Ahvaz
Era	20th-century philosophy Contemporary philosophy
Main interest	Aesthetics Literary theory Culture theory Sociology of culture Liberation theory

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Philosopher

influenced by	Friedrich Nietzsche Karl Marx Max Weber Sigmund Freud Theodor W. Adorno Ahmad Shamloo Martin Heidegger Michel Foucault Emmanuel Levinas Frantz Fanon Edward Said
philosophical school	Postcolonialism Critical theory
region	Western philosophy