Hamid Dabashi Quotes & Sayings

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

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

There is no pride in a masculinst history that deprives half of humanity a pride of place, the dignity of who and what they are. — Hamid Dabashi

This is Not Another Revolution. This is a Civil Rights Movement — Hamid Dabashi