Azar Nafisi, Ph.D. (born December 1955) is an Iranian professor and writer who currently resides in the United States. Nafisi's bestselling book "Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books" has gained a great deal of public attention and been translated into 32 languages. Wikipedia
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Note: For more information on Dr. Nafisi's current and upcoming speaking engagements, please visit the calendar . dialogueproject.sais-jhu.edu/anafisi.php?SMSESSION=NO
Lacking internal support or external legitimacy, writes Hamid Dabashi , the US empire now banks on a pedigree of comprador intellectuals, homeless minds and guns for hire weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/797/special.htm
... different from our own, says Azar Nafisi Saturday July 1, 2006 The Guardian What images come to our mind these days when we think of Iran? The Iranian president, Dr Mahmoud Ahmadinejad... www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,1808980,00.html
Nafisi acknowledges in the book that her return to Iran to teach literature during the post-revolutionary period meant that, by virtue of her gender, she would be at the center of politics. www.merip.org/mero/interventions/mottahedeh_interv.html
Azar Nafisis Dialogue Project: Culture and Democracy in Muslim World and the West at SAIS and Abbas Milani Iran Democracy Project at the Hoover Institution are the prime examples in the case of Iran. www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=10707
Azar 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. www.barclayagency.com/nafisi.html
