# Hamid Dabashi

hamid dabashi (Persian: حمید دباشی‎; born 1951) is an Iranian 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 his Theology of Discontent; several books on Iranian cinema; Staging a Revolution; an edited volume, Dreams of a Nation: On Palestinian Cinema; and his one-volume analysis of Iranian history Iran: A People Interrupted. == Biography == Born and raised in southern city of Ahvaz in Iran, Dabashi—a self-professed spokesperson for postcolonialism—was educated in Iran and then in 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.