Showing posts with label Hamid Dabashi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hamid Dabashi. Show all posts

Monday, 30 May 2016

An Introduction to Trumpology (Hamid Dabashi, Al Jazeera)

Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump [Reuters]

A couple of weeks ago while visiting a local bookstore on Columbia University campus in New York I ran into a book on the front counter of the otherwise perfectly respectable establishment with a strange title: Assholes: A Theory of Donald Trump (2016)

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/05/introduction-trumpology-160529081538213.html

Sunday, 22 May 2016

Saturday, 14 May 2016

When Muslims ruled the civilised world (Hamid Dabashi, Al Jazeera)

Scene from the manuscript of the poem, the Romance of Varqa and Gulshah, paintings by Khuwayyi. c 1250AD Konya, Turkey [Getty]

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has just opened a magnificent exhibition of Islamic art of the Seljuqid period. That sentence would or should probably cause a double-take for right at the artistic and intellectual heartland of this beleaguered empire, Americans are celebrating one of the highest summits of Islamic civilization at a time when US Muslims are subject to one of the ugliest phases of Islamophobia in their recent history

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/05/muslims-ruled-civilised-world-160508111252853.html