Title
The Crisis of an Islamic Republic
Presenter
Hamid Dabashi
Abstract
Hamid Dabashi will examine both the political and moral crisis that the Islamic republic now faces -- the origin of this crisis and the terms in which it is unravelling.
Biography
Born in 1951 into a working class family in Iran, Hamid Dabashi finished his college education in Tehran, before moving to the United States, where he received a dual Ph.D. in Sociology of Culture and Islamic Studies from the University of Pennsylvania in 1984, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University. He is currently the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York, the oldest and most prestigious Chair in Iranian Studies. Professor Dabashi has written 18 books, edited 4, and contributed chapters to many more. He is also the author of over 100 essays, articles and book reviews in major scholarly and peer reviewed journals on subjects ranging from Iranian Studies, medieval and modern Islam, comparative literature, world cinema, and the philosophy of art (trans-aesthetics). Dabashi is also a public speaker around the globe, a current affairs essayist, and a staunch anti-war activist.