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Hamid Dabashi
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Hamid Dabashi ( Persian : حمید دباشی ; born 1951) is an Iranian-American professor of Iranian studies and comparative literature at Columbia University in New York City . He is the author of over twenty books. Among them are Theology of Discontent , several books on Iranian cinema , Staging a Revolution , the edited volume Dreams of a Nation: On Palestinian Cinema , and his one-volume analysis of Iranian history , Iran: A People Interrupted .
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iranian-american historian
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iranian-american academic who holds the hagop kevorkian professorship of iranian studies and comparative
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