Hamid Dabashi
Al Jazeera English
New York, NY, United States
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Past articles by Hamid:
A tall Christmas tree in a post-Christian world
What is in a tree? → Read More
Hollywood Orientalism is not about the Arab world
It is about the American world. → Read More
This one for Africa: The Nobel Prize ennobles itself
By awarding this year’s Nobel Prize for literature to Abdulrazak Gurnah, the Swedish Academy ennobled the prize itself. → Read More
The new and improved Taliban: The parting US gift to Afghanistan
After promising democracy and delivering mayhem, the US leaves behind unshaven ‘Proud Boys’ to rule over Afghans. → Read More
What is Critical Race Theory?
And why are racists afraid of it? → Read More
Murdering minorities in America: ‘The white man’s burden’
So many are dying in America and beyond because ‘white men’ think they carry a ‘burden’ to civilise the world. → Read More
Small is still beautiful: Prospects of a post-pandemic world
What does ‘return to normalcy’ really mean? → Read More
Trump is gone – can we now talk about fake news at the NYT?
The ‘Grey Lady’ is in deep trouble – like it has been so many times in its 169-year history. → Read More
What do we write about when we write about America?
On the tenth anniversary of my column for Al Jazeera, I am submerged in the despair of the ‘American winter’. → Read More
The unbearable lightness of being Obama
The former US president lacks conviction and this is apparent in every page and chapter of his new memoir. → Read More
What to make of more than 70m Americans who voted for Trump?
As of today, 73,781,603 people voted for Trump, which amounts to 47.2 percent of the total votes counted. → Read More
Siah Armajani (1939-2020): An artist of public happiness
If Hannah Arendt theorised public happiness for Americans, Armajani staged it beautifully. → Read More
Why I will not vote for Joe Biden
Yes, Trump is an American monster but so is Biden. → Read More
The end of American history begins in America
America's aggressions around the globe have now come full circle and boomeranged into its domestic affairs. → Read More
What can Avicenna teach us in time of Coronavirus?
As COVID-19 brought science and philosophy closer, we have seen a resurrection of interest in Persian polymath Avicenna. → Read More
One day and one dream in the life of a self-isolating New Yorker
Will this be year zero of a new world or yet another year of us inching towards the edge? → Read More
From Sa'di to Boccaccio: The literary legacy of pandemics
Literature can help us survive this pandemic with a healthy constellation of our mental, moral, and critical faculties. → Read More
The world in grips of an epidemic more dangerous than coronavirus
We must prevent the spread of the epidemic of racist fear-mongering occasioned by the coronavirus outbreak. → Read More
Redefining 'terrorism' in America
What will it take to call violence inspired by white supremacy 'terrorism'? → Read More
Iran has two nuclear options
The Islamic republic can go either the Israeli way or the Egyptian way. → Read More