BOOKS
Professor Dabashi has written 18 books, edited 4, and contributed chapters to many more. An internationally renowned cultural critic and award-winning author, his books and articles have been translated into numerous languages, including Japanese, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Hebrew, Danish, Arabic, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Polish, Turkish, Urdu and Catalan.
Among his best-known books are his Authority in Islam; Theology of Discontent; Truth and Narrative; Close Up: Iranian Cinema, Past, Present, Future; Staging a Revolution: The Art of Persuasion in the Islamic Republic of Iran; Masters and Masterpieces of Iranian Cinema; Iran: A People Interrupted; and an edited volume, Dreams of a Nation: On Palestinian Cinema.
His recent work includes an introduction to Random House Modern Library edition of The Adventures of Amir Hamza (2007); Makhmalbaf at Large: The Making of a Rebel Filmmaker (I. B. Tauris, 2007) and Islamic Liberation Theology: Resisting the Empire (Routledge, 2008).
