Hamid Dabashi’s 2006 book on Iran, Iran A People Interrupted, turns conventional western scholarship on that country upside down. By rejecting the dynamic that counterpoises so-called western modernity to “Oriental” traditionalism, Dabashi creates a new historiography inspired by Edward Said’s scholarship and Franz Fanon’s studies of colonialism. Dabashi, who currently teaches Iranian Studies at Columbia … Continue reading Transcending the Colonizer’s History: A Review of Hamid Dabashi’s Iran, A People Interrupted