“The visual possibility of seeing the historical person (as opposed to the eternal Qur'anic man) on screen is arguably the single most important event allowing Iranians access to modernity.” MenPersonsImportantSeeingEventsPossibilityEternalHistoricalScreensAccessVisualsAllowingModernityImportant Events Book:Close Up: Iranian Cinema, Past, Present, and Future Source: Close Up: Iranian Cinema, Past, Present, and Future
“While [European] national cultures were concocted to distinguish one economic unit of capital from another, civilizational thinking was invented to unify these cultures against their colonial consequences. Islamic, Indian, or African civilizations were invented contrapuntally by Orientalism... in order to match, balance and thus authenticate 'Western Civilization'.” ThinkingOrderCultureEconomicBalanceCivilizationConsequenceWesternIndianIslamicUnitsWestern CivilizationOrientalismNational Culture Author:Hamid Dabashi
“This is Not Another Revolution. This is a Civil Rights Movement” RightsMovementRevolutionCivil RightsCivil Rights Movement Author:Hamid Dabashi
