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Biographical note
Hamid Dabashi is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of many books and scholarly essays on subjects ranging from Iranian Studies, medieval and modern Islam, and comparative literature to world cinema and the philosophy of arts. His books and articles have been translated into numerous languages and he has taught and delivered lectures in many North American, European, Arab, and Iranian universities.'In a prose both intimate and critical, Dabashi creates a language - dare I say the language - for Iranians to articulate their collective experiences. Yet in his indelible textual mosaic, organically interweaving Rumi with Ricoeur, Bollywood with Hollywood via a personal and intellectual history, he communes with all his readers, no matter their origins' Atefeh Akbari, Barnard College
'Told with his usual wit, piercing insights and poetic verve, Hamid Dabashi weaves together Iranian philosophy and Persian poetry with humorous and cinematic memories of his childhood to illuminate what it means to be alive in the world. I found myself profoundly moved and could have read another hundred pages.' Ramin Bahrani, Academy Award-nominated filmmaker
''It is not the son who kills the father, but the father who kills the son': this memorable takeaway from a thousand-year-old Persian epic echoes through a great scholar's account of his bookish postcolonial childhood. Compulsively readable, a charismatic teacher in love with the freshness of children and their love of stories, Dabashi offers an accelerated course in Great Books and tenderness for the world.' Bruce Robbins, Columbia University