Hamid Dabashi

"Shi'ism is a religion of doing nothing. It can never succeed without doing nothing. When it succeeds, Shi'ism is still nothing. In the Islamic context at large, it partakes in the masculinism of its t…"

"While 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. Islam…"

"The link between Betty Mahmoody’s “Not Without My Daughter” and Azar Nafisi’s is the link between two phases and modes of labor migration, the moral salvation that “the West” provides, and imperial hu…"

"Otherwise lacking internal support or external legitimacy, the US empire now banks on a pedigree of comprador intellectuals, homeless minds and guns for hire. All this to momentarily manufacture conse…"

"The visual possibility of seeing the historical person on screen is arguably the single most important event allowing Iranians access to modernity."

"'Islam and globanalisation', or giving European and American space to Muslim names to denounce their own Islamic phantasms, is a new phase in the social manufacturing of domination -- using nominal Mu…"