An Iranian Childhood

Hamid Dabashi is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of many books and scholarly essays on subjects ranging from Iranian Studies, medieval and modern Islam, and comparative literature to world cinema and the philosophy of arts. His books and articles have been translated into numerous languages and he has taught and delivered lectures in many North American, European, Arab, and Iranian universities.

• List of figures; Acknowledgements; Prelude: myself as another; 1. My memories of our forgetfulness; 2. Once upon a moonlight in the merry month of June; 3. The house in the Ardeshir street; 4. My elephant was dreaming of India; Epilogue: myself as myself; Bibliography; Index.

'In a prose both intimate and critical, Dabashi creates a language - dare I say the language - for Iranians to articulate their collective experiences. Yet in his indelible textual mosaic, organically interweaving Rumi with Ricoeur, Bollywood with Hollywood via a personal and intellectual history, he communes with all his readers, no matter their origins' Atefeh Akbari, Barnard College