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, 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.

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

  Hamid Dabashi

  Rights, Movement, Revolution

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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.

  Hamid Dabashi

  Men, Important Events, Historical

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

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