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04/18/2003
Azar Nafisi
A conversation with Iranian author Azar Nafisi
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A conversation with Iranian scholar Azar Nafisi of Johns Hopkins University about her memoir “Reading Lolita In Tehran: A Memoir In Books” which explores her exile from Iran due to her teaching of Western literature after the 1979 revolution.
Azar Nafisi
Azar Nafisi is an Iranian professor and writer currently living in the United States.
Nafisi?s bestselling book "Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books" has been translated into 32 languages.
Born in Iran, Nafisi is the daughter of Ahmad Nafisi, former mayor of Tehran and Nezhat Nafisi, who is among the first women to be elected to the Iranian parliament. She was sent to school in Lancaster, England at age 13, and then moved to the United States in the last year of her high school career. She received a Ph.D in English and American Literature at the University of Oklahoma.
She returned to teach at the University of Tehran but was expelled when she refused to wear the mandatory Islamic veil in 1981 and did not resume teaching until 1987. Nafisi left Iran on June 24, 1997 and moved to the United States, where she wrote "Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books."
Source - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azar_Nafisi
Azar Nafisi is an Iranian professor and writer currently living in the United States.
Nafisi?s bestselling book "Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books" has been translated into 32 languages.
Born in Iran, Nafisi is the daughter of Ahmad Nafisi, former mayor of Tehran and Nezhat Nafisi, who is among the first women to be elected to the Iranian parliament. She was sent to school in Lancaster, England at age 13, and then moved to the United States in the last year of her high school career. She received a Ph.D in English and American Literature at the University of Oklahoma.
She returned to teach at the University of Tehran but was expelled when she refused to wear the mandatory Islamic veil in 1981 and did not resume teaching until 1987. Nafisi left Iran on June 24, 1997 and moved to the United States, where she wrote "Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books."
Source - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azar_Nafisi
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