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‘Where Is Abbas Kiarostami?’: A Conversation with Hamid Dabashi

  • The Katharina Otto-Bernstein Screening Room (map)

Abbas Kiarostami
Snow No.9
2002
Digital print on rag paper
57 x 90 cm, edition of 7

Please join us for a special event celebrating Where Is Abbas Kiarostami?, the latest book by renowned scholar Hamid Dabashi, exploring the legacy of one of cinema’s greatest visionaries.

Featuring:

Hamid Dabashi, Author and Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature
Jane Gaines, Professor, Film and Media Studies, Columbia University; Professor Emerita of English & Literature, Duke University
Hisham Matar, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author and Professor of Professional Practice in Comparative Literature and Translation at Barnard College.

Moderated by Ramin Bahrani, Oscar-nominated filmmaker and Associate Professor of Professional Practice, Film

Sponsored by:

Columbia University School of the Arts
Film Program
Film and Media Studies Program
Center for Comparative Media
Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS)

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