Libyan People's Aspirations and a Forgotten UN Resolution
by TRNN
Born on June 15,1951 into a working class family in the south-western
city of Ahvaz in the Khuzestan province of Iran, Hamid Dabashi received
his early education in his hometown and his college education in Tehran,
before he moved 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 wrote his doctoral dissertation on Max Weber's theory of
charismatic authority with Philip Rieff (1922-2006), the most
distinguished Freudian cultural critic of his time. 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 his field. He has also taught and delivered lectures in many
North American, European, Arab and Iranian universities. His books
include Close Up: Iranian Cinema, Past, Present, Future (2001), Iran: A
People Interrupted (2007), and The Green Movement and the USA: The Fox
and the Paradox (2010).
Hamid Dabashi: The US/NATO pushed a militarization of the Libyan struggle which has turned into a civil war
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