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Hamid Dabashi Quotes

born 1951 Iran

Hamid Dabashi (born 15th June 1951) is an Iranian-born American historian, cultural and literary critic and expert on Iran and Shi'a Islam.

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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.

There cannot be any politics of resistance, aesthetics of emancipation, or prose and poetry of agential autonomy in history for people around the world—nothing except a Starbucks Coffee version of the so-called “Western classics” to go and save them.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Hamid Dabashi (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.