[lbo-talk] Hamid Dabashi on Ahmadinejad at Columbia

[Doug Henwood]

Hamid Dabashi was quoted by CNN as describing the Ahmadinejad event  
at Columbia as "misguided." I asked him to amplify. His response: "It  
was a circus masquerading as a dialogue that never took place--two  
self-promoting presidents confusing photo ops with moral  
intelligence--no one, especially our students, learned anything from  
this event."