Podcasts about dabashi

Dear listeners: What kind of life are you living? What's your relationship between your body, mind, and soul? And what can you learn about your deepest self as you get older? In this episode, Jacke talks to award-winning French novelist Colombe Schneck about her new book, Swimming in Paris: A Life in Three Stories, in which she dives into her past to understand her present and - maybe - finds the way to a new future. Then Professor Pardis Dabashi (Losing the Plot: Film and Feeling in the Modern Novel) stops by to discuss her choice for the last book she will ever read. Colombe Schneck is documentary film director, a journalist, and the author of twelve books of fiction and nonfiction. She has received prizes from the Académie française, Madame Figaro, and the Société des gens de lettres. The recipient of a scholarship from the Villa Medici in Rome as well as a Stendhal grant from the Institut français, she was born and educated in Paris, where she still lives. Swimming in Paris: A Life in Three Stories, Schneck's twelfth book, tells the story of a woman's personal journey through abortion, sex, friendship, love, and swimming. Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/donate. The History of Literature Podcast is a member of Lit Hub Radio and the Podglomerate Network. Learn more at www.thepodglomerate.com/historyofliterature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sömürgecilik ilişkilerindeki kültürel ve siyasi tahakkümü analiz eden Fanon, hem sömürgeci hem de sömürülenlerin zihni durumuna ilişkin oldukça etkili eserler ortaya koydu. Fanon'un bir takipçisi olarak modern dönemde bu ilişkilerin nasıl sürdürüldüğünü inceleyen Hamid Dabashi de sömürgecilere eklemlenen aydın tipi üzerine oldukça etkileyici analizler yaptı. Dabashi, Fanon'un sömürgeleştirilen insanların hangi koşullarda aşağılık duygusuna sahip olduklarını yapısal koşulları üzerinden analiz ettiği Siyah Deri Beyaz Maskeler'den esinlenerek Fanon'un günümüz dünyasına nasıl uyarlanabileceğini analiz ediyor. Kahverengi Deri Beyaz Maskeler adlı eserinde konuyu detaylandıran Dabashi, Batı'ya göç eden entelektüellerin süreç içerisinde kendi kültürlerine yabancılaştıkları ve o kültürü nasıl aşağıladıklarını anlatmaktadır. Bu aşağılama durumu zamanla siyasi bir işleve dönüşmekte ve Batı ile kendi ülkeleri karşı karşıya geldiğinde doğrudan Batı'dan yana tavır alınmakta ve Batı'nın emperyal tutumu dahil olmak üzere birçok eylemi bizatihi bu entelektüeller aracılığıyla meşrulaştırılmaktadır. Dabashi'nin komprador entelektüel olarak tanımladığı bu aydın tipi, bir kültür komisyoncusu olarak görev yapmakta ve Batı'nın kültürel ve siyasi tahakkümünü kolaylaştırmaya çalışmaktadır. Kişisel çıkarları sebebiyle Batı kültürüne karşı aşinalığı olan bu aydın tipolojisi, içerisinde bulunduğu ülkenin dilini aksanıyla konuşmakta ve güce ulaşmak amacıyla kendi yurttaşlarına kötü davranabilmektedir. İçerisinde bulunduğu kültür ve iktidar tarafından sahiplenilmeyi ve kabul edilmeyi arzulayan bu aydın tipi, nihai kertede kendi ülkesi aleyhine bir aparata dönüşmekte ve tahakküm ilişkilerini meşrulaştırmaya çalışmaktadır. Sömürgecilik çalışmaları açısından bir diğer önemli isim olan Albert Memmi'ye de atıf yapan Dabashi, kısa süre içerisinde asimile edilen aydınların kendilerini ortalama sömürgeciden oldukça üstün bir konuma yerleştirildiklerini de ifade etmektedir. Memmi'ye atıfla bu aydın tipi, sömürgeci zihniyeti aşırıya taşımakta ve sömürgeleştirilenlere karşı oldukça gururlu bir küçümseme sergilemektedir.

As far back as Aristotle, plots have been viewed as essential components of long-form narratives. So what happened when Modern novelists like James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, and Djuna Barnes began turning away from conventional plots? Why did they do this and what were the consequences for their art? In this episode, Jacke talks to Professor Pardis Dabashi about her new book, Losing the Plot: Film and Feeling in the Modern Novel. PLUS Booker Prize-winning author Anne Enright (The Wren, The Wren) stops by to discuss her choice for the last book she will ever read. Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/donate. The History of Literature Podcast is a member of Lit Hub Radio and the Podglomerate Network. Learn more at www.thepodglomerate.com/historyofliterature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jacke talks to Professor Hamid Dabashi about his new book The Persian Prince: The Rise and Resurrection of an Imperial Archetype, which replaces Machiavelli's Il Principe with a bold new figurative ideal. Drawing on works from Classical Antiquity to postcolonial literature, Dabashi reveals an archetype of a Persian Prince - leader, rebel, prophet, and poet - deeply rooted in the collective memories of multiple nations, Muslim empires, and the wider Mediterranean world. PLUS Jacke starts a new series reading his way through the poems of Emily Dickinson, beginning with Poem #23. Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/donate. The History of Literature Podcast is a member of Lit Hub Radio and the Podglomerate Network. Learn more at www.thepodglomerate.com/historyofliterature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the show this week, Chris Hedges discusses the importance of the scholar Edward Said with Professor Hamid Dabashi. Dabashi is professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Every empire, as Edward Said points out, in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order and democracy, and that it uses force only as a last resort. And, sadder still, Said reminds us, there always is a chorus of willing intellectuals to say calming words about benign or altruistic empires, as if one shouldn't trust the evidence of one's eyes watching the destruction and the misery and death brought by the latest mission civilisatrice. As Said knew, Western civilization is a fiction, neither the term Orient nor the concept of the West has any ontological stability. Non-Western civilizations were and are invented constructs, negational formulations of the Western world, used not to understand or explore reality but to justify pillage and domination. Hamid Dabashi's new book is On Edward Said: Remembrance of Things Past.

Iraj Pezeshkzad‘s My Uncle Napoleon is a slapstick and at times goofy love story, but it is also in the best tradition of sly anti-imperial satire. Scholar Pardis Dabashi came to it late, but she has all the convert’s zeal as she links it to a literary tradition that’s highly theoretical, but also delightfully far-flung. … Continue reading "59 Recall This B-Side #4: Pardis Dabashi on “My Uncle Napoleon” (JP)"

Hamid Dabashi (Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York), gives a talk for the Middle East Studies Centre. The first comprehensive social and intellectual biography of Jalal Al-e Ahmad, this book explores the life and legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad (1923-69), arguably the most prominent Iranian public intellectual of his time and contends that he was the last Muslim intellectual to have articulated a vision of Muslim worldly cosmopolitanism, before the militant Islamism of the last half a century degenerated into sectarian politics and intellectual alienation from the world at large. This unprecedented engagement with Al-e Ahmad’s life and legacy is a prelude to what Dabashi calls a post-Islamist Liberation Theology. The Last Muslim Intellectual is about expanding the wide spectrum of anticolonial thinking beyond its established canonicity and adding a critical Muslim thinker to it is an urgent task, if the future of Muslim critical thinking is to be considered in liberated terms beyond the dead-end of its current sectarian predicament. A full social and intellectual biography of Jalal Al-e Ahmad, a seminal Muslim public intellectual of the mid-20th century, this book places Al-e Ahmad’s writing and activities alongside other influential anticolonial thinkers of his time, including Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire and Edward Said. Chapters cover Jalal Al-e Ahmad’s intellectual and political life; his relationship with his wife, the novelist Simin Daneshvar; his essays; his fiction; his travel writing; his translations; and his legacy. Hamid Dabashi is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He received a dual PhD in Sociology of Culture and Islamic Studies from the University of Pennsylvania in 1984, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University. He wrote his dissertation on Max Weber's theory of charismatic authority with Philip Rieff (1922-2006), the most distinguished Freudian cultural critic of his time. Professor Dabashi has taught and delivered lectures in many North American, European, Arab, and Iranian universities. Professor Dabashi has written twenty-five books, edited four, and contributed chapters to many more. He is also the author of over 100 essays, articles and book reviews on subjects ranging from Iranian Studies, medieval and modern Islam, and comparative literature to world cinema and the philosophy of art (trans-aesthetics). His books and articles have been translated into numerous languages, including Japanese, German, French, Spanish, Danish, Russian, Hebrew, Italian, Arabic, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Polish, Turkish, Urdu and Catalan. His books include Authority in Islam [1989]; Theology of Discontent [1993]; Truth and Narrative [1999]; Close Up: Iranian Cinema, Past, Present, Future [2001]; Staging a Revolution: The Art of Persuasion in the Islamic Republic of Iran [2000]; Masters and Masterpieces of Iranian Cinema [2007]; Iran: A People Interrupted [2007]; and an edited volume, Dreams of a Nation: On Palestinian Cinema[2006]. His most recent work includes Shi’ism: A Religion of Protest (2011), The Arab Spring: The End of Postcolonialism (2012), Corpus Anarchicum: Political Protest, Suicidal Violence, and the Making of the Posthuman Body (2012), The World of Persian Literary Humanism (2012) and Being A Muslim in the World (2013).

Join Hamid Dabashi and Ahdaf Soueif as they discuss Dabashi's new book, On Edward Said: Remembrance of Things Past. ---------------------------------------------------- On Edward Said: Remembrance of Things Past is an intimate intellectual, political and personal portrait of Edward Said, one of the 20th centuries' leading public intellectuals. Edward Said (1935-2003) was a towering figure in post-colonial studies and the struggle for justice in his native Palestine, best known for his critique of orientalism in western portrayals of the Middle East. As a public intellectual, activist, and scholar, Said forever changed how we read the world around us and left an indelible mark on subsequent generations. Hamid Dabashi, himself a leading thinker and critical public voice, offers a unique collection of reminiscences, travelogues and essays that document his own close and long-standing scholarly, personal and political relationship with Said. In the process, they place the enduring significance of Edward Said's legacy in an unfolding context and locate his work within the moral imagination and environment of the time. Order a copy of On Edward Said: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1556-on-edward-said ---------------------------------------------------- Speakers: Hamid Dabashi is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. 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. He wrote his doctoral dissertation on Max Weber's theory of charismatic authority with Philip Rieff (1922-2006), the most distinguished Freudian cultural critic of his time. Professor Dabashi has taught and delivered lectures in many North American, European, Arab, and Iranian universities. Professor Dabashi has written 22 books, edited four, and contributed chapters to many more. He is also the author of over 100 essays, articles and book reviews on subjects ranging from Iranian Studies, medieval and modern Islam, and comparative literature to world cinema and the philosophy of art (trans-aesthetics). His books and articles have been translated into numerous languages, including Japanese, German, French, Spanish, Danish, Russian, Hebrew, Italian, Arabic, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Polish, Turkish, Urdu and Catalan. Novelist Ahdaf Soueif was born in Cairo and educated in Egypt and England, where she studied for a Ph.D. at the University of Lancaster. She is the author of two collections of short stories, Aisha (1983) and Sandpiper (1996), and two novels. In the Eye of the Sun, about a young Egyptian woman's life in Egypt and England, where she goes to study as a postgraduate, set against key events in the history of modern Egypt, was published in 1992. The Map of Love (1999), is the story of a love affair between an Englishwoman and an Egyptian nationalist set in Cairo in 1900, as secrets are uncovered by the woman's great-granddaughter, herself in love with an Egyptian musician living in New York. The Map of Love was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction. In 2004, her book of essays, Mezzaterra, was published. Her most recent work is Cairo: My City, Our Revolution (2012), a personal account of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. Ahdaf Soueif lives in London and Cairo. She writes regularly for The Guardian and is a key political commentator on Egypt and Palestine. She is the founder of the Palestine Festival of Literature, Pal Fest. Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/a40GsNbMguM Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

New Books at the Heyman Center: a podcast featuring audio from events at Columbia University, and interviews with the speakers and authors. The Shahnameh: The Persian Epic as World Literature By: Hamid Dabashi The Shahnameh, an epic poem recounting the foundation of Iran across mythical, heroic, and historical ages, is the beating heart of Persian literature and culture. Composed by Abu al-Qasem Ferdowsi over a thirty-year period and completed in the year 1010, the epic has entertained generations of readers and profoundly shaped Persian culture, society, and politics. For a millennium, Iranian and Persian-speaking people around the globe have read, memorized, discussed, performed, adapted, and loved the poem. In this book, Hamid Dabashi brings the Shahnameh to renewed global attention, encapsulating a lifetime of learning and teaching the Persian epic for a new generation of readers. Dabashi insightfully traces the epic’s history, authorship, poetic significance, complicated legacy of political uses and abuses, and enduring significance in colonial and postcolonial contexts. In addition to explaining and celebrating what makes the Shahnameh such a distinctive literary work, he also considers the poem in the context of other epics, such as the Aeneid or the Odyssey, and critical debates over the concept of world literature. Arguing that Ferdowsi’s epic and its reception broached an idea of world literature long before nineteenth-century Western literary criticism, Dabashi makes a powerful case that we need to rethink the very notion of “world literature” in light of his reading of the Persian epic.

Hon utmanade sitt lands normer och konventioner i ord och handling, en kärlekens och frihetens poet, men fick betala ett högt pris innan sin allt för tidiga död. Litteraturväven berättar historien om Farough Farrokhzad: minns vingarnas flykt. Litteraturväven är ett program av och med Jonas Stål, med inläsningar av Beatrice Berg och Dick Lundberg. Forough Farrokhzads porträtt är ritat av Irem Babovic. KÄLLOR: [Litteratur] Bibeln (Psaltaren 55:7-9), Verbum (1999) Dabashi, Hamid – Masters and masterpieces of Iranian cinema, Mage Publishers (2007) Farrokzhad, Forough – Mitt hjärta sörjer gården, Lindelöws (2011) Farrokzhad, Forough – Another birth and other poems, Mage Publishers (2010) Farrokzhad, Forough – Sin, The University of Arkansas Press (2007) Farrokhzad, Forough – Asir/Captive, Rhombus Press (2018) Hillmann, Michael – A lonely woman: Forugh Farrokhzhad an her poetry, Three Continents Press (1987) Naficy, Hamdid – A social history of Iranian cinema, volume 2, Duke University Press (2011) Rahimieh, Nasrin (ed.) – Forugh Farrokhzad: Poet of modern Iran – Iconic woman and feminine pioneer of new Persian poetry, I.B. Tauris (2010) Roostaee, Amir Hossein – Different worlds: A comparison of love poems by Dorothy Livesay and by Forugh Farrokhzad, Université de Sherbrooke (2010) Vatanka, Alex – Iran and Pakistan: security, diplomacy and american influence, I.B. Tauris (2015) [Film] Farrokhzad, Forough - خانه سیاه است (The House is Black), Golestan Film (1963) Strigel, Claus – Mond Sonne Blume Spiel, Denkmal Film (2008) [Nätet] Darznik, Jasmin – The poetry, life and legacy of Forugh Farrokhzad, Women’s Review of Books Emami, Karim – Recollections and afterthoughts, www.forughfarrokhzad.org Folkhälsomyndigheten: Lepra Lepramissionen: Sjukdomen Milani, Farzaneh – I cannot lie”: The literary biography and unpublished letters of Forugh Farrokhzad, Föreläsning vid London Middle East Institute, University of London (20 oktober 2016) Milani, Farzaneh – Remember Flight: Forugh Farrokhzad, the Iranian Icarus, Föreläsning vid London Middle East Institute, University of London (21 oktober 2016) Milani, Farzaneh – The House Is Black: A Model Life Narrative by Forugh Farrokhzad, Föreläsning vid London Middle East Institute, University of London (24 oktober 2016) Milani, Farzaneh – I Feel Sorry for the Garden: Democratizing the Family, Föreläsning vid London Middle East Institute, University of London (25 oktober 2016) Varzi, Roxanne – Pictura poesis: The interplay of poetry, image and etnography in Forough Farrokhzad’s The House is Black, Offscreen (2014) Withheld, Names – Life under the shah, The Harvard Crimson (1979)

Sep. 17, 2014. As part of the Library's celebration of a thousand years of the Persian book, Hirad Dinavari discusses Persian literary humanism and how Persian culture was spread through books. Speaker Biography: Hamid Dabashi is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. 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. He wrote his dissertation on Max Weber's theory of charismatic authority with Philip Rieff (1922-2006), the most distinguished Freudian cultural critic of his time. Dabashi has taught and delivered lectures in many North American, European, Arab and Iranian universities. He has written 25 books, edited four, and contributed chapters to many more. He is also the author of more than 100 essays, articles and book reviews on subjects ranging from Iranian studies, medieval and modern Islam and comparative literature to world cinema and the philosophy of art (trans-aesthetics). For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6554

This is a supplemental episode of our podcast series, “The Podcast for Social Research.” While preparing for our previous podcast, I (Ajay) came across a piece that Gideon Lewis-Kraus had written critiquing an article by Columbia Professor Hamid Dabashi which, in turn, was a critique of Azar Nafisi's bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran. I was quite taken aback by Gideon's piece both because (full-disclosure) Dabashi is my adviser but, perhaps far more importantly, I agreed so vehemently with Dabashi's original critique. Being the kind of institution we are, where we want to promote transparency and open, critical dialogue, we thought the best thing to do was to record a separate, brief podcast where Gideon and I got to revisit this episode, some six years later. What ensues is, we hope, an interesting discussion about politics, aesthetics, war, imperialism, writing-as-art, writing-as-industry, and a host of other issues. We have an appropriately brief Notations section

Interview with Hamid Dabashi, professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at the Columbia University in New York about his book Iran. A People Interrupted, "a brilliant analysis of the Iranian state of mind... Dabashi insists on a nuanced reading of the complexities of the Iranian social fabric," according to Hannan Hever, chair, Department of Hebrew Literature of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.