Current Affairs
Professor Dabashi is a current affairs essayist, analyst, and commentator in major international newspapers and periodicals. He is regularly featured on CNN, BBC, CBC, Aljazeera, and other global, national, and local venues. His essays regularly appear in al-Ahram Weekly in Egypt, Bir Gun in Turkey, and CNN in the United States.
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Weekly Program
Week in Green with Hamid DabashiVideo
The Crisis of an Islamic Republic
The End of the West and the Birth of the First Postcolonial Person
The March 18 Movement - Bloggers should not be killed
The author of 'Iran: A People Interrupted' discusses the bloody clashes in that country, and the aftermath of the election that has led to the high level of dissatisfaction among citizens.
Al-Jazeera interview on Ashura uprising 12/27/09
On the history of Student Day in Iran
بی بی سی: آغاز اعتصاب غذای عده ای از ایرانیان در نیویورک
Hamid Dabashi on Iran Protests: "This is Not Another Revolution. This is a Civil Rights Movement" (June 24th 2009)
Empire - Iran: Influence or Threat
Hamid Dabashi, CNN, June 20th 2009
Hamid Dabashi, GritTV, June 15th 2009
2010
Facebook
Radio Farda
BBC Persianاخبار روز
June 3, 2010
Radio Free Europe
Huffington Post(ویدئو) متفکر بزرگ جنبش آزادی مدنی آمریکا کورنل وست
May 20, 2010
Columbia Spectator
weekingreen.org
Deutsche Welle (دویچه وله )February 13, 2010
New Statsmanبیانیه هشتاد تن از دموکراسی خواهان و مدافعان حقوق بشر
Deutsche Welle (دویچه وله)January 31, 2010
CNN.com
GRITtv with Laura Flanders
rahesabz.net (جرس)
Mardomak (مردمک)
Deutsche Welle (دویچه وله)January 14, 2010
The Daily Beast
Sight & Sound | The International Film Magazine
+ 2009
By Hamid Dabashi
BBC Radio 4: Woman's Hour
PRI's The World
shahrvand.com
The Wall Street Journal
Christian Science Monitor
Tehran Bureau
Social Text
CNN.com
A Lone Cleric Is Loudly Defying Iran’s Leaders
New York Times
October, 22 2009
Statement by Campaign for Peace and Democracy
Signatory: Hamid Dabashi
The Nation
October 22, 2009
Radio Zamaneh
Fatal Bombing in Iran
Guest: Hamid Dabashi
thetakeaway.org
October 19, 2009
Commentary: Why Obama deserves the prize
By Hamid Dabashi
CNN.com
October 9, 2009
Commentary: Katie Couric's Sarah Palin moment?
By Hamid Dabashi
CNN.com
October 1, 2009
ساز و برگ نهضت سبز ايران
حمید دباشی
Mardomak
October 1, 2009
Commentary: When Baha'is are free, then all Iranians will be (Portugese translation)
By Hamid Dabashi
CNN.com
September 16, 2009
Al-Ahram
Iran's Presidential Election Shifts Its National Politics
NPR
August 27 2009
Commentary: Iran confronts rape, torture allegations
By Hamid Dabashi
CNN.com
22nd August 2009
A tale of two cities
By Hamid Dabashi
Al-Ahram
20-26 August 2009
فرهنگ سیاسی ایران در حال تغییر است
mowjcamp.com
August 19, 2009
Iran is self-destructing
By Hamid Dabashi
Al-Ahram
13-19 August 2009
Under Pressure from Hawks, Obama Tacks to the Right
IPS
August 12 2009
Iran: Beware Neocons Bearing Boycotts
Informed Comment
August 6th 2009
Oh, The Appeasement!
The American Conservative
August 5th 2009
Commentary: Huge risks in Iran sanctions
By Hamid Dabashi
CNN.com
5th August 2009
Inauguration Expected To Spark More Unrest In Iran
NPR
August 3rd 2009
Speech at the United4Iran Global Day of Action
July 25 2009
Global Day of Action around the world
CNN, July 25 2009
On the Green Movement in Iran
July 24 2009
Political Discontent, Divisions Deepen In Iran
NPR
July 22nd 2009
Deutsche Welle (دویچه وله)July 22, 2009
Commentary: Middle East is changed forever
By Hamid Dabashi
CNN.com
July 20, 2009
شکایت از احمدی نژاد به دادگاه بین المللی جنایی
Roozonline
July 19, 2009
Left is wrong on Iran
By Hamid Dabashi
Al-Ahram
July 16-22, 2009
An Epistemic Shift in Iran
By Hamid Dabashi
The Brooklyn Rail
July-August 2009
گپي با حميد دباشي در مورد رويداد هاي اخير ايران
Salam Toronto
July 10th 2009
Dabashi v. Bishara: how Arabs and Iranians misread each other's politics
Ibishblog
July 9, 2009
Iran in the crucible
Al-Ahram
July 9-15th 2009
MSNBC
The Arab Roaming the Streets of Tehran
By Hamid Dabashi
TehranBureau
7th July 2009
Looking in the wrong places
By Hamid Dabashi
Al-Ahram
2-8 July 2009
Bürgerrechte statt Klassenkampf
Tachles, July 3rd 2009
سخنان پروفسور حميد دباشي در پنل دانشگاه کلمبيا
Salam Toronto
July 1, 2009
Opposition movement in Iran not over, experts say
CNN.com
July 1st 2009
Nightline, ABC News
Commentary: U.S. dollars could kill Iran's protest movement
CNN.com
30th June 2009
Iranian Green Movement and US Left's skepticism
KBOO.fm
June 30th 2009
Unveiling the revolution
Salon.com
June 27, 2009
People Power
Al-Ahram
25th June - 1st July 2009
Green Shoots of an Islamic Restoration
Break for News
June 25th 2009
Khamenei enfrenta crise de credibilidade
Estadão
June 24th 2009
This is Not Another Revolution. This is a Civil Rights Movement
Democracy Now
June 24, 2009
Najwspanialsza z twarzy Iranu
Polskie Radio
June 24th 2009
Looking for Their Martin Luther King Jr.
By Hamid Dabashi
New York Times
24th June 2009
Commentary: Iran conflict isn't class warfare
By Hamid Dabashi
CNN.com
22nd June 2009
Expert: Protesters want civil rights, not revolution
CNN.com
June 21st 2009
Il movimento non si esaurià, ma l'Occidente deve aiutarlo
Il Messaggero
June 20th 2009
Protesters' tactics
CNN.com
June 20th 2009
Supreme Leader's speech
Canada AM
June 19th 2009
UK protests over Iran's 'evil' jibe
Al-Jazeera English
June 19th 2009
Khamenei's speech 'a threat'
Al-Jazeera English
June 19th 2009
On the Iranian election and its aftermath
Left Business Observer Radio
June 18th 2009
The Real Mir Hossein Mousavi
"The Takeaway", WNYC and PRI, June 18th 2009
Iran's conservative leadership divided amid unrest
CNN.com
June 18th 2009
Iranian-Americans say history is at hand
CNN.com
June 17th 2009
Commentary: Rigged or not, vote fractures Iran
By Hamid Dabashi
CNN.com
17th June 2009
More protests in Iran
ABC Radio
June 15th 2009
Elections In Iran: A 'Charade' Or A Sign Of Change To Come?
GRITtv with Laura Flanders
June 15th 2009
Iranian elections - the Day After
KBOO.fm
June 13th 2009
Diary of a Defiance - Iran un-Interrupted
June 13th 2009
Iranian presidential election
ABC Radio
June 12th 2009
Iranian-Americans cast ballots on Iran's future
CNN.com
June 11th 2009
On Obama's June 4th Cairo Speech, "A New Beginning"
By Hamid Dabashi
Harvard Press Authors on Current Events
June 2009
Obama reneges on change
By Hamid Dabashi
Al-Ahram
4-11 May 2009
On Majidi's Song of Sparrows
NPR Radio
April 2009
Sal-e No Mobarak!
By Golbarg Bashi and Hamid Dabashi
TehranAvenue
March 2009
Engaging Iran, Rethinking Border Security, and Blindsight
GRITtv
March 2009
Obama's Iran policy
NPR Radio
February 2009
The Moral and Military Meltdown of Israel
By Hamid Dabashi
The Palestine Chronicle
12 January 2009
+ 2008
'I, Barack Hussein Obama...'
By Hamid Dabashi
Al-Ahram
13 - 19 November 2008
Obama's Palestinian problem
Al-Ahram Weekly
July 2008
Obama's Palestinian problem
By Hamid Dabashi
Al-Ahram
26 June - 2 July 2008
A case of split infinitives
By Hamid Dabashi
Al-Ahram
8 - 14 May 2008
The American Empire: Triumph of Triumphalism
Unbound: The Harvard Journal of the Legal Left
April 2008
The limit of Obama's imagination
By Hamid Dabashi
Al-Ahram
21 - 27 February 2008
The limit of Obama's imagination
Al-Ahram Weekly
February 2008
+ 2007
Of Banality and Burden
By Hamid Dabashi
Al-Ahram
11 - 17 October 2007
Of banality and burden
Al-Ahram Weekly
October 2007
The '300' Stroke
By Hamid Dabashi
Al-Ahram
2 - 8 August 2007
The '300' Stroke
Al-Ahram Weekly
August 2007
Hollywood Film "300" Sparks Iranian Anger
BBC World News
May 2007
On Iran: A People Interrupted — interview by Goudarz Eghtedari
Voices of the Middle East KBOO 90.7 FM
March 2007
Thinking beyond the US invasion of Iran
By Hamid Dabashi
Al-Ahram
8 - 14 February 2007
Iran: A Second Look — interview by Aniruddha Das
Asia Pacific Forum WBAI 99.5 FM
February 2007
Thinking beyond the US invasion of Iran
Al-Ahram Weekly
February 2007
On the U.S. and Iran-Iraq relations
WHYY, Philadelphia
January 2007
+ 2006
Lessons from Lebanon: Rethinking National Liberation Movements
By Hamid Dabashi
Al-Ahram
7 - 13 September 2006
How Do we Sleep while Beirut is Burning
By Hamid Dabashi
Al-Ahram
3 - 9 August 2006
Longer version available in Electronic Intifada: Part One and Part Two.
Native informers and the making of the American empire
By Hamid Dabashi
Al-Ahram
1 - 7 June 2006
Iran: Let the Democratic Process Work
By Hamid Dabashi
Asia Times
28 April 2006
Islam and Globanalisation
By Hamid Dabashi
Al-Ahram
23 - 29 March 2006
Polish Translation and Danish Translation in Weekendavisen
Interviews
Lolita and Beyond, interview by Foaad Khosmood, Znet.
On the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, “Round Table With You,” Voice of America (Persian).
On US-Iran relations, Mehr News Agency (Persian).
Mosque Bombing Begets More Violence, WBRU and NPR.
American Zeitgeist, by Rob McGann, Avenue E Productions.
+ 2005
Interviews
Asia Society Shocking and Awful: A Grassroots Response to War and Occupation, Amy Goodman, Democracy Now.
This is Not a Documentary, by Peter T. Chattaway, Christianity Today.
+ 2004
For a Fistful of Dust: A Passage to Palestine
By Hamid Dabashi
Al-Ahram
23 - 29 September 2004
Interviews
Academy’s Approach to Foreign Films, by David D'Arcy, NPR.
Al-Sistani Ups the Ante, by Dick Gordon, WBRU and NPR.
On Susan Sontag, by Behnam Nateghi, Radio Farda (Persian)
+ 2003
The Moment of Myth: Edward Said 1935-2003
By Hamid Dabashi
Asia Society
September 2003
Persian Translation
Forget reds under the bed, there's Arabs in the attic
By Hamid Dabashi
Times Higher Education Supplement
17 October 2003
Interviews
Q&A Asia Source Interview, Asia Society
The Shiites of Iraq: An Ancient Minority’s Modern Challenge, by Dick Gordon, NPR Radio.
Religion and Politics, by Gwen Ifill, PBS News.
Growing Danger, by Gwen Ifill, PBS News.
The New Iraq, by Ray Suarez, PBS News.
The Future of Iraq, by Fran Kelly, ABC Radio National, Australia.
The Shiites of Iraq: An Ancient Minority's Modern Challenge, by Dick Gordon, WBRU and NPR.
Mosque Bombing, interview by Gwen Ifill, PBS News.
+ 2002
In Defence of Hashem Aghajari
By Hamid Dabashi and Arien Mack
The New York Review of Books
19 December 2002
Interviews
They hope to make it powerless, by Tanya Schevitz, San Fransisco Chronicle.
Interview by Nigel Parry, The Electronic Intifada.
+ 2001
Interviews
The kids are all right (in moderation), by Roger Clarke, The Independent.
Interpreting Islam: War and peace, by Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times.
What is Religion For?, by Robert Rabinowitz, Jewish Public Forum.
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