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  • Brown Skin, White Masks

    by Hamid Dabashi ...
    This book is a a critical examination of the role that immigrant intellectuals play in facilitating the global domination of American imperialism.In his pioneering book about the relationship between race and colonialism, Black Skin, White Masks, Frantz Fanon explored the traumatic consequences of the sense of inferiority that colonised people felt. Brown Skin, White Masks picks up where Fanon ... Read more

    $14.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Europe and Its Shadows

    Coloniality after Empire

    by Hamid Dabashi ...
    Europe has long imagined itself as the centre of the universe, although its precise geographical, cultural and social terrains have always been amorphous. Exploring the fear and fascination associated with the continent as an allegory, Hamid Dabashi considers Europe to be a historically formed barricade against the world.Frantz Fanon’s assessment that 'Europe is literally the creation of the Third ... Read more

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  • The Shahnameh

    The Persian Epic as World Literature

    by Hamid Dabashi ...
    The Shahnameh, an epic poem recounting the foundation of Iran across mythical, heroic, and historical ages, is the beating heart of Persian literature and culture. Composed by Abu al-Qasem Ferdowsi over a thirty-year period and completed in the year 1010, the epic has entertained generations of readers and profoundly shaped Persian culture, society, and politics. For a millennium, Iranian and ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Dreaming of Baghdad

    by Haifa Zangana, Ferial J. Ghazoul ...
    "With passion and commitment," an exiled Iraqi woman recounts her time organizing resistance to Saddam Hussein and imprisonment in Abu Ghraib (Nawal El Saadawi, author of Zeina).In 1970s Iraq, the Ba'ath Party was at the height of its influence in the Middle East and popularity throughout the West. But a group of activists recognized the disastrous potential of the regime as its charismatic leader ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Where Is Abbas Kiarostami?

    Toward a Postcolonial Film-Philosophy

    by Hamid Dabashi ...
    When Abbas Kiarostami suddenly passed away in July 2016, he was already an iconic figure in world cinema—and his reputation as a master filmmaker has only grown since. In this book, celebrated scholar Hamid Dabashi offers a new way of looking at Kiarostami's artworld, one that questions the very idea of film philosophy. Dabashi's authoritative account of the philosophical resonances of Kiarostami ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Persian Parables

    Form as Philosophy

    by Hamid Dabashi ...
    Series series Translation/Transnation
    A major reassessment of the parable in Persian literature and its contribution to philosophical and creative thinkingIn this book, Hamid Dabashi offers a radical reconsideration of the parable in Persian literature, arguing that parabolic thinking is a mode of philosophical reflection. Dabashi eschews the conventional focus on the supposed moral or political allusions in these parables—the “moral ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • The World of Persian Literary Humanism

    by Hamid Dabashi ...
    Humanism has mostly considered the question “What does it mean to be human?” from a Western perspective. Dabashi asks it anew from a non-European perspective, in a groundbreaking study of 1,400 years of Persian literary humanism. He presents the unfolding of this vast tradition as the creative and subversive subconscious of Islamic civilization. ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • After Savagery

    Gaza, Genocide, and the Illusion of Western Civilization

    by Hamid Dabashi ...
    Written during a genocide, After Savagery reveals the ethical bankruptcy of “Western philosophy” and how it undergirds the erasure of the colonized.The death toll in Gaza continues to rise―a cold, lifeless number representing entire communities crushed under the weight of settler colonialism.What remains of the theories we use to understand our world? With lyrical and lucid fury, Hamid Dabashi ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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  • Imagine a Nation

    Six Persian Poets in Search of a Homeland

    by Hamid Dabashi ...
    From Ferdowsi to Rumi and Hafiz, poetry has played a central role in the historical Iranian cultural imagination. How have contemporary poets contributed to this imagining of a nation, in the context of the twentieth century and its momentous events?In this book, Hamid Dabashi interrogates the oeuvre of six major poets: Nima Yushij (1895-1960), Mehdi Akhavan-e Sales (1929-1990), Ahmad Shamlou ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Iran in Revolt

    Revolutionary Aspirations in a Post-Democratic World

    by Hamid Dabashi ...
    In his retelling of the boldness and tragedy of the Zhina uprising in Iran, Hamid Dabashi asks: What constitutes the success of revolutions and how do we measure their failures?In September 2022, a young Kurdish woman, Zhina Mahsa Amini, was killed in police custody for failing to observe the strict dress code imposed on Iranian women. Her death sparked a massive social uprising within and outside ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Persian Prince

    The Rise and Resurrection of an Imperial Archetype

    by Hamid Dabashi ...
    With its title borrowed from Machiavelli, The Persian Prince goes far beyond Machiavelli's wildest imagination as to how to rule the world. Hamid Dabashi articulates a bold new idea of the Persian Prince—a metaphor of political authority, a figurative ideal deeply rooted in the collective memories of multiple nations, and a literary construct that connected Muslim empires across time and space and ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The End of Two Illusions

    Islam after the West

    by Hamid Dabashi ...
    Dismantling the myths that divide Islam and the West, this cutting-edge work of critical thinking proposes new ways to reread Islamic and world histories.Extending from the front-page news coverage of our daily lives back into the deepest and most revelatory histories of the last two hundred years and earlier, Hamid Dabashi's The End of Two Illusions is a daring, provocative, and groundbreaking ... Read more

    $28.49 USD