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About Hamid Dabashi

Hamid Dabashi is the Hagop Kevorkian professor of Iranian studies and comparative literature at Columbia University. Born in Iran he received a dual PhD in the sociology of culture and Islamic studies from the University of Pennsylvania followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University. Dabashi has written and edited many books including Iran the Green Movement and the USA and The Arab Spring as well as numerous chapters essays articles and book reviews. He is an internationally renowned cultural critic whose writings have been translated into numerous languages. Dabashi has been a columnist for the Egyptian Al-Ahram Weekly for over a decade and is a regular contributor to Al Jazeera and CNN. He has been a committed teacher for nearly three decades and is also a public speaker a current affairs essayist a staunch anti-war activist and the founder of Dreams of a Nation. He has four children and lives in New York with his wife the Iranian-Swedish feminist scholar and photographer Golbarg Bashi.