Hamid Dabashi is Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York. His most recent books are The Subversive Seventies in Tehran: Romancing Revolutions (2025) and Imagine a Nation: Six Persian Poets in Search of a Homeland (2025).
Hamid Dabashi
Articles
Toys Without Frontiers
Despite Western media’s dismissal of them as mere propaganda, the Iranian LEGO videos have a long and complex genealogy.
The Shattered Mirrors of Golestan Palace
The destruction of Iranian cultural heritage sites, and the cultural histories buried in the rubble.
Different, Deadly Games
With the American-Israeli assault on Iran, the die is cast.
