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The World is My Home: A Hamid Dabashi Reader

The World is My Home: A Hamid Dabashi Reader

Hamid Dabashi

These essays reflect historical and geographical worlds that are best viewed when Hamid Dabashi's work is read as a whole, which this one- volume work makes possible for the first time.
Post-Orientalism: Knowledge and Power in a Time of Terror

Post-Orientalism: Knowledge and Power in a Time of Terror

Hamid Dabashi

Post-Orientalism is a sustained record of Hamid Dabashi’s reflections over many years on the question of authority and power.
Being a Muslim in the World

Being a Muslim in the World

Hamid Dabashi

Hamid Dabashi ask this seminal question anew, in the context of what he proposes is a post-Western world where the "Islam and the West" binary is collapsing and where "the West," as a construct, no longer holds the same normative hegemony.
The Green Movement in Iran

The Green Movement in Iran

Hamid Dabashi

The writings have been modified and updated for book publication. The volume presents Dabashi’s account of the events since June 12, 2009—the Election Day itself—and his recap of highlights of the build-up period to the mass protests.
The World of Persian Literary Humanism

The World of Persian Literary Humanism

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.
Can Non-Europeans Think?

Can Non-Europeans Think?

Hamid Dabashi

Based on years of scholarship and activism, this insightful collection of philosophical explorations is certain to unsettle and delight in equal measure.
Islamic Liberation Theology: Resisting the Empire

Islamic Liberation Theology: Resisting the Empire

Hamid Dabashi

This book is a radical piece of counter-intuitive rethinking of the clash of civilizations theory and global politics.
Theology of Discontent: The Ideological Foundatation of the ...

Theology of Discontent: The Ideological Foundatation of the ...

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In this remarkable volume, Hamid Dabashi brings together, in a sustained and engagingly written narrative, the leading revolutionaries who have shaped the ideological disposition of this cataclysmic event.
Shi'ism

Shi'ism

Hamid Dabashi

For a Western world anxious to understand Islam and, in particular, Shi’ism, this book arrives with urgently needed information and critical analysis.
The World of Persian Literary Humanism

The World of Persian Literary Humanism

Hamid Dabashi

“Sasanian society, which prevailed in the IranIraq region,” Leila Ahmed believes, is particularlyimportant ...inthat Muslim conquered its peopleanddirectly inherited its culture and institutions. The mores of the incoming Arabs and the ...
Conversations with Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Conversations with Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Muḥsin Makhmalbāf

The three lengthy conversations collected here, between Makhmalbaf and leading Iranian film critic and scholar Hamid Dabashi, traverse the filmmaker's experiences as a young radical, his critical stance regarding the current Islamic regime, ...
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia: A Novel

How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia: A Novel

Mohsin Hamid

"Mr. Hamid reaffirms his place as one of his generation's most inventive and gifted writers." –Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "A globalized version of The Great Gatsby . . . [Hamid's] book is nearly that good." –Alan Cheuse, NPR ...
Reluctant Fundamentalist, (PB)

Reluctant Fundamentalist, (PB)

Hamid, Mohsin

This Is A Meditative Novel Written In An Introspective Manner&Hellip;But This Is Also A Deeply Suspenseful Work, The Sense Of Anticipation Heightened By Hamid&Rsquo;S Wonderful Use Of Restraint&Rsquo;&Mdash;Mukund Padmanabhan In The Hindu ...
The Reluctant Fundamentalist

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Mohsin Hamid

The Reluctant Fundamentalist is Mohsin Hamid's thrillingly provocative international bestseller Shortlisted for the Man Booker prize in 2007 Now a major film directed by Mira Nair and starring Kate Hudson and Kiefer Sutherland 'Excuse me, ...
Discontent and Its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, ...

Discontent and Its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, ...

Mohsin Hamid

Discontent and its Civilizations is the essential first collection of non fiction from Mohsin Hamid.
Moth Smoke

Moth Smoke

Mohsin Hamid

Moth Smoke is the first novel by Mohsin Hamid, author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist 'You know you're in trouble when you can't meet a woman's eye, particularly if the woman happens to be your best friend's wife.
Religious and Racial Profiling in Mohsin Hamid's Novel "The ...

Religious and Racial Profiling in Mohsin Hamid's Novel "The ...

Muhammad Rizwan

This paper will examine the core issues resulting from the religious profiling with the references from the novel "The Reluctant Fundamentalist", written by Mohsin Hamid in the context of post-9/11 milieu of the world, especially about the ...
تجربه مصدق در چشم انداز آيندۀ ايران: مجموعه مقالات كنفرانس ...

تجربه مصدق در چشم انداز آيندۀ ايران: مجموعه مقالات كنفرانس ...

Hūshang Kishāvarzʹṣadr

مجموعه مقالات كنفرانس تجربه دولت مصدق در چشم انداز آينده ايران Hūshang Kishāvarzʹṣadr, Houshang Keshavarz-Sadr, Hamid Akbari Ḥamīd Akbarī. Mossadegh and the Future of Iran Edited by Houshang Keshavarz Sadr and Hamid Akbari ...
A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 2: The ...

A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 2: The ...

Hamid Naficy

Hamid Naficy is one of the world’s leading authorities on Iranian film, and A Social History of Iranian Cinema is his magnum opus.
Seismic Hydrocarbon Exploration: 2D and 3D Techniques

Seismic Hydrocarbon Exploration: 2D and 3D Techniques

Hamid N. Alsadi

2D and 3D Techniques Hamid N. Alsadi. H.N. Alsadi, Seismic Hydrocarbon Exploration, Advances in Oil and Gas Exploration & Production, DOI 10.1007/978 -3-319-40436-3 H.N. Alsadi, Seismic Hydrocarbon Exploration, Advances in Oil and ...
Exit West

Exit West

Mohsin Hamid

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Spectral Analysis in Geophysics

Spectral Analysis in Geophysics

B.M. Båth

The need for a review of geophysical spectroscopy, especially in seismology, became obvious in our institute around 1965. But it was not until later that a major step forward was taken by us in this direction, especially by Dr. Hamid N. Al-Sadi.
Home, Exile, Homeland: Film, Media, and the Politics of Place

Home, Exile, Homeland: Film, Media, and the Politics of Place

Hamid Naficy

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Almond Tree

The Almond Tree

Michelle Cohen Corasanti

Gifted with a mind that continues to impress the elders in his village, Ichmad Hamid struggles with the knowledge that he can do nothing to save his friends and family.
Hamid Karzai

Hamid Karzai

Dennis Abrams

Can he bring order and stability to his war-weary nation? This book tackles such questions, while giving insights into the background and tactics of one of the world's most crucial decision-makers.

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