[stephenjohnbanker]

Columbia? He’s right at home.

[thouworm]

exactly-—the viper den

[thouworm]

The defining characteristic of Dabashi's scholarship is his pronounced aversion to the United States and Israel. In this, he follows in the tradition of his idol and colleague, the late Professor Edward Said. (Following Said's death, Dabashi, writing in Counterpunch, penned a worshipful tribute to his colleague's "heroic character.")

Parroting almost verbatim Said's rhetoric, Dabashi maintains that "It is impossible to understand Islam outside colonialism." He portrays the Middle East as a historically hapless victim of Western colonialism, explaining that the current political realities of the region are reducible to the Saidian paradigm of the "abuse of labor by capital."

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