and Post-Orientalism: Knowledge and Power in Time of Terror and hosts an online TV show called The Week In Green. Dabashi calls the movement in Iran a civil rights movement, and he joins us on GRITtv to discuss the ways it is changing and redefining the republic--and its effects on the region.
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Is Another Revolution Coming In Iran?
The triumphant stories about how Twitter was going to save Iran may have died down a little, but the resistance in Iran is growing and swelling. Protest on the Shia festival day of Ashura, December 27, resulted in the most violent crackdown since June and the death of opposition presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi's nephew.
Hamid Dabashi, Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, has written 20 books including Islamic Liberation Theology: Resisting the Empire and Post-Orientalism: Knowledge and Power in Time of Terror and hosts an online TV show called The Week In Green. Dabashi calls the movement in Iran a civil rights movement, and he joins us on GRITtv to discuss the ways it is changing and redefining the republic--and its effects on the region.
and Post-Orientalism: Knowledge and Power in Time of Terror and hosts an online TV show called The Week In Green. Dabashi calls the movement in Iran a civil rights movement, and he joins us on GRITtv to discuss the ways it is changing and redefining the republic--and its effects on the region.