Professor Hamid Dabashi, himself Iranian born, describes a combination of poetry and cruelty in Iranian history and the movement of Iran's culture toward a new cosmopolitan future. Neither Iran, nor Islam, nor the region, nor the age, can be described with simplistic slogans of hatred or love, says Dabashi.
Hamid Dabashi
December 8, 2012
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