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Reading Lolita in Tehran

A Memoir in Books

Reading Lolita in Tehran( )
Author: Nafisi, Azar
ISBN:978-1-58724-487-2
Publication Date:Oct 2003
Publisher:Thorndike Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $28.95
Book Description:

A New York Times Bestseller. We all have dreams - things we fantasize about doing and generally never get around to. For two years before she left Iran in 1997, Nafisi gathered seven young women at her house every Thursday morning to read and discuss forbidden works of Western literature. They were shy and uncomfortable at first, unaccustomed to being asked to speak their minds, but soon they began to speak more freely. Not only about the novels they were reading but also about...
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Nafisi, Azar (Author)
AZAR NAFISI is a visiting professor and the director of the Dialogue Project at the Foreign Policy Institute of Johns Hopkins University. She has taught Western literature at the University of Tehran, the Free Islamic University, and the University of Allameh Tabatabai in Iran.

In 1994 she won a teaching fellowship from Oxford University, and in 1997 she and her family left Iran for America. She has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The New Republic and has appeared on radio and television programs.

Azar's book, Reading Lolita in Tehran, was published in 2003 to wide acclaim.

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