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A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 2: The ...
Hamid NaficyHamid Naficy is one of the world’s leading authorities on Iranian film, and A Social History of Iranian Cinema is his magnum opus.
Home, Exile, Homeland: Film, Media, and the Politics of Place
Hamid NaficyFirst Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Otherness and the Media: The Ethnography of the Imagined and ...
PreviewExile Discourse and Televisual Fetishization Hamid Naficy EXILE AS LIMINALITY It is now nearly two years since I have become a refugee in this place, spending every few nights in a friend's house. I feel uprooted. Nothing seems real.
A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 4: The ...
Hamid Naficy... Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa, based her film about exile, including her own, on a photograph. As emblems of psychic and physical displacement, the photographs in both films are, in Freudian terms, those of an Other, not of the self. Born in Tehran ...
Connected: Engagements with Media
PreviewThe following were present at the collective editorial meeting: Chris Pound, Mazyar Lotfalian, Meg McLagan, Ron Burnett, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Faye Ginsburg, Alexandra Juhasz, Kim Laughlin, Hamid Naficy, Sandy Stone, Lisa ...
An Accented Cinema: Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking
Hamid NaficyHow their personal experiences of exile or diaspora translate into cinema is a key focus of the text. The text presents comprehensive and global coverage of this genre. "An Accented Cinema is in numerous respects a monumental work.
A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 3: The Islamicate ...
Hamid NaficyA comprehensive social history of Iranian cinema address documentaries, popular genres, and art films and explores the role of film and media in shaping a modern national identity in Iran.
The World is My Home: A Hamid Dabashi Reader
Hamid DabashiThese 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.
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)
Hamid, MohsinThis 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
Mohsin HamidThe 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, ...
Mohsin HamidDiscontent and its Civilizations is the essential first collection of non fiction from Mohsin Hamid.
Post-Orientalism: Knowledge and Power in a Time of Terror
Hamid DabashiPost-Orientalism is a sustained record of Hamid Dabashi’s reflections over many years on the question of authority and power.
Moth Smoke
Mohsin HamidMoth 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 ...
Muhammad RizwanThis 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 ...
Being a Muslim in the World
Hamid DabashiHamid 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.
تجربه مصدق در چشم انداز آيندۀ ايران: مجموعه مقالات كنفرانس ...
Hūshang Kishāvarzʹṣadrمجموعه 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 ...
Seismic Hydrocarbon Exploration: 2D and 3D Techniques
Hamid N. Alsadi2D 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 ...
Cultural Migrants from Japan: Youth, Media, and Migration in ...
Yuiko Fujita... for return” (Naficy, 1990: 16) to their imaginary homeland, as the quoted passage from Shishōsetsu (I-Novel) written by Minae Mizumura describes ( Mizumura arrived in America at the age of twelve in the 1960s, lived there over two decades, ...
Can Non-Europeans Think?
Hamid DabashiBased on years of scholarship and activism, this insightful collection of philosophical explorations is certain to unsettle and delight in equal measure.
Spectral Analysis in Geophysics
B.M. BåthThe 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.
The Almond Tree
Michelle Cohen CorasantiGifted 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.
Islamic Liberation Theology: Resisting the Empire
Hamid DabashiThis book is a radical piece of counter-intuitive rethinking of the clash of civilizations theory and global politics.
Hamid Karzai
Dennis AbramsCan 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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