Tiger Lily

Global anti-war rallies oppose sanctions and war on Iran

Dabashi is in this one too! LOL!!!

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RHwFAEkbN4

DabashWhy Demand Nuclear Transparency from Iran and Not Israel?

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGbAmRRwapY

G.R, pfft

you're mostly right. pfft. ;)

TL:

"I'm not even a hard-fast fan of Dabashi, but in this interview, he very simply precisely describes the status quo."

And that's exactly what it is, a description and NOT an analysis of the situation! I don't believe some folks understand the difference.

P.S.

that comment about TheRealNews is so beyond somewhere in some pathetically beyond the gutter, that I really can't be bothered to refute it. But then that's like many comments here on Ic. 'Just can't be bothered.

Thank you for the latest round of sensible comments. except for

I'm not even a hard-fast fan of Dabashi, but in this interview, he very simply precisely describes the status quo.

As for Eyrabs. What a pity that Eyeranians have such an inferiority complex of a chip on their shoulder, very contrary to so many interviewed, the ordinary people of many Arab nations, who only wish ordinary Iranians well, 

especially in all their struggles.

Drop the blatant racism and idiotic, corruption of  character assassinations, and maybe one day

Mr Dabashi's analysis

of the revolutionary situation in Arab world is the best I've seen so far, thanks for posting it.

@ Omid Parsi on Dabashi

       Omid,

     You keep piling insults and criticism on Dabashi without any substance. It sounds more like a personal vendetta than anything else! May be you know something but you are not telling! But on the face of it, it seems just some personal grudge going back to your days in academia as you eluded to it.

     There is nothing in this interview (video) that justifies such vicious attacks by you on the credibility and quality of Mr. Dabashi's work.

      If your intention goes beyond bad mouthing and settling some scores you need to bring more substance to the table.

   Your statement:

"As for RealNews, it appears to be a hack job, involving a desk, a laptop w/ web cam and a Skype connection, operated by a few empty suits in search of a more respectable job in journalism. Exactly the kind of outfit that a self-respecting scholar would not associate with."

     is oblivious to the fact that if we belittle likes of realNews we are left with likes of FOX news and rest of crap fed to people minds by Mr. Murdock and his ilk! The fact that CNN & FOX & ABC never talk to likes of chomsky says more about them than Chomsky's scholarly work!

Dear Mash Ghassem (!!)

Dear Mash Ghassem (!!)

You hit the nail in the head… but you are the nail!!

I was not going to dignify your mean diatribe by responding, but then my liberal (“khalghi/abgooshti”!!) side got the better of me! So here it is:

It probably did not occur to you that I might personally know Mr Dabashi rather well from my years in academia. You would be proud to know that there are still certain deep-thinking countrymen of yours with scholarly background who are not fully engaged in looking for “moreed”!!

As it happens, knowing about and minding what happens in the world, not just the wretched Middle East, is kind of like my day job. However I don’t get a chance to write books or regurgitate consensus geopolitical views on YouTube, as I have to watch hundreds of millions of dollars of investments (among which there may even be a portion of your meager 401K or Mr. Dabashi’s!) whose returns depend on just having the informed worldview (geopolitical, economic, financial, meteorological, you name it) and decisively acting upon it.

It is an interesting attribute of Iranians to proudly suck up to their tonsils to any two bit talking head who dabbles in some jargon and act as unpaid mercenaries on their behalf, whether they are turbaned heads talking on a “manbar” (aka mullahs) or other self-proclaimed "initellectuals" (in the tradition of Shariati or Soroush) residing in faculties and, now of course, the internet (RealNews!!).

Part of my hard-earned survivalist worldview is that certain cultural attributes, like the aforementioned, though hopefully not immutable, don’t change so much from one generation to the next. That is why I would rather make $$ than talk, so that when you and the next generation of our people "hit the fan" I shall remain unaffected and have a laugh.

As for RealNews, it appears to be a hack job, involving a desk, a laptop w/ webcam and a Skype connection, operated by a few empty suits in search of a more respectable job in journalism. Exactly the kind of outfit that a self-respecting scholar would not associate with.

I believe you'd still be better served with mainstream media. If you really care about geopolitics, there are numerous policy thank tanks listed in: thinktanks.fpri.org. Knock yourself out.

I really do not care about Arabs

I really do not care what are Arabs up to.

Iran ia a big country and maybe we should all concentrate on it.

Fair & objective!

        He is an independent scholar.

Omid Parsi, you are far worse

Shame on you for being so arrogant, and ignorant. 

You monarchists can't exactly say what he says on this interview that's so comical or charlatanesque, but nonethless you can curse, insult and keep you 'in-depth' observations under two, two lines paragraphs.

Well sonny boy, you sound like an incredibly obtuse character assasinating charlatan to me.

At least he has wrriten twenty books, writes a column for Al Ahram, and can coherently argue a point in a paragraph. Can you do any of that? You charlatan.

Dabashi is a Charlatan ...

Dabashi is a poorly disguised b.s. artist. A 3rd rate wannabe journalist passing himself as an expert, intellectual and social scientist.

Shame on Columbia University, or rather the whole collective social science racket (Iranian Studies?!!), for sustaining charlatans of this nature... 

MG, you're welcome

That's sort of what I was thinking: precisely packed.

P.S. Usually I totally ignore that thing, by excercising enormous amount of compassion . I don't read the Iranian Hello Magazine blogs (must be thousands of them) with endless crap and have to scroll down for ages passed the endless comments, just like so many other fellow sufferers. I just sometimes, very rarely end up there by just clicking on someone's comments.

Then might as well not come and spam on my blogs kiddo

Adab az Keh Amoukhty ? Az Bee Adaban !

Go spam somewhere else, OK?

 
Lots of people are seriously fed up with your constant spamming, that's all.

Just stop spamming the entire board

A precise analysis, a bit short perhaps

on Saudie Arabia, it's role in Lybia, Syria,...

Thanks TL.

DK jaan exactly what part of this was CC for you?

what for ? To End up as "educated" as You ?

Stupid Girl thinks Europe is a country...

Darius Kadivar, please, go and finish high school

!

Dabashi on Real News == Comedy Central ...

Donate Now indeed ...

LOL 

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NIAC’s Hamid Dabashi Denounces Hypocrisy of Foreign Intervention in Libya (RealNews) 

ahang1001, ahang1001, ahang1001

من که سر در نمیارم چون شنبلیله تشریف دارم، ولی‌ ویدئو را نگاه کردین؟

بنظرم آنالیزه خوبیه

Well indeedooiii, darius

Thanks for a very clever, unfortunately true comment. ;)

اتحادیه مسخره عرب

این اتحادیه مسخره...نماینده به سوریه میفرسته برای چی؟

برای برقراری آزادی و دموکراسی؟

در هیچیک از کشور های اتحادیه عرب نه آزادی وجود دارد نه دموکراسی

نمیدونم چرا خودشون خندشون نمیگیره 

Well

Rest assure , if they could get their hand on what you refering to, none of them be here nagging  or complaining .