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Reading Lolita in Tehran
A Memoir in Books
by Azar Nafisi |
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About the Author
Azar Nafisi is a visiting professor and the
director of the SAIS Dialogue Project at the Foreign Policy Institute of
Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies
(Washington DC). A professor of aesthetics, culture and literature, Dr.
Nafisi held a fellowship at Oxford University, teaching and conducting a
series of lectures on culture and the important role of Western
literature and culture in Iran after the revolution in 1979. She taught
at the University of Tehran, the Free Islamic University and Allameh
Tabatabii before her return to the United States in 1997 - earning
national respect and international recognition for advocating on behalf
of Iran's intellectuals, youth and especially young women. She was
expelled from the University of Tehran for refusing to wear the
mandatory Islamic veil in 1981, and did not resume teaching until 1987.
Dr. Nafisi conducted workshops in Iran for women
students on the relationship between culture and human rights; the
material culled from these workshops formed the basis of a new human
rights education curriculum. She has lectured and written extensively in
English and Persian on the political implications of literature and
culture as well as the human rights of the Iranian women and girls and
the important role they play in the process of change for pluralism and
an open society in Iran. She has been consulted on issues related to
Iran and human rights both by the policy makers and various human rights
organizations in the US and elsewhere.
Dr. Nafisi has written for The New York Times,
Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal, and her cover
story, "The Veiled Threat: The Iranian Revolution's Woman Problem"
published in The New Republic (February 22, 1999) has been
reprinted into several languages. She is also the author of
Anti-Terra: A Critical Study of Vladimir Nabokov’s Novels. She is
currently teaching on the relation between culture and politics at SAIS.
Reading Lolita in Tehran was published by Random House in April
2003.
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