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	Steven Barclay Agency - Azar Nafisi
		Azar Nafisi is best-known as the author of the national bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, which electrified its readers with a compassionate and often harrowing portrait of the Islamic revolution in Iran and how it affected one university professor and her students.
		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 in Washington, DC, where she is a professor of aesthetics, culture, and literature, and teaches courses on the relation between culture and politics.
		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_print.html (544 words)

	Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi
		Nafisi's love for literature and books is clear throughout: she spends considerable time describing her bookstore-visits, her reading at various points, and her worries about the availability of certain texts (as decadent foreign works are, of course, eventually banned and booksellers trafficking in such work closed down).
		Nafisi's passion for literature is her greatest strength, but it is also her greatest limitation as a teacher (and reader).
		Nafisi's disdain for political matters might be rooted in her family background: her father was mayor of Tehran, her mother "one of the first six women elected to Parliament in 1963".
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/nabokovv/lolita6.htm (4069 words)

	Meredith College News: On“Reading Lolita in Tehran”: Azar Nafisi Speaks at Founder’s Day Convocation
		Azar Nafisi, author of "Reading Lolita in Tehran," recently spoke at Meredith as part of the Mary Lynch Johnson Writers at Meredith Series.
		Nafisi was forced to resign from her position as a professor at the University of Tehran in 1981 when she refused to wear the Islamic veil.
		During her speech Nafisi encouraged audience members to use their imaginations, be curious, celebrate uniqueness, enjoy freedoms and most importantly, to read and write great works of literature in order to connect with people.
	www.meredith.edu /mcnews/spt-azar-nafisi.htm (341 words)

	NOW with Bill Moyers. Transcript. David Brancaccio Interviews Azar Nafisi. 6.20.03 \| PBS
		Author and literary scholar, Azar Nafisi, was in Iran during and after the revolution.
		AZAR NAFISI: Well, first of all, I want to mention that the regime used the idea of the veil, the fact that women's hair is supposed to tempt men.
		AZAR NAFISI: The whole point is that Lolita, like my girls in Iran, would be constantly defined by their oppressors.
	www.pbs.org /now/transcript/transcript_nafisi.html (2049 words)

	The Chronicle: 10/13/2006: A Collision of Prose and Politics
		Nafisi holds in her classroom at Tehran University in autumn 1979, amid the violence and chaos of the Iranian revolution.
		Nafisi holds a "trial," appointing the student as prosecutor, two other students as defense lawyer and judge, and herself in the role of the novel to be tried.
		Nafisi's biography (she was a leftist student at the University of Oklahoma before returning to Iran, in 1979) to illustrate a transformation that he sees many leftists of that generation making to anti-totalitarianism.
	chronicle.com /free/v53/i08/08a01201.htm (3784 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Azar Nafisi - Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Azar Nafisi is a western-educated Iranian woman who returns to her native country after 17 years abroad (having left at the age of 13) to find it much changed by the politics of the seventies.
		But then, Nafisi was hampered by a reluctance to disclose the exact identities of her students, so that must have prevented a more vivid account.
		Nafisi draws insightful parallels between classic works of fiction with the lives she and her students were living (if you can call it living) under the repressive regime of the Islamic Republic.
	www.epinions.com /content_183149432452 (1003 words)

	Powell's Books - Review-a-Day - Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi, reviewed by The Atlantic ...
		Nafisi divides her book into four sections: "Lolita," "Gatsby," "James," and "Austen." The first introduces the reading group; "Gatsby" and "James" take us back to Nafisi's years teaching at universities in Iran, through the revolution and the war with Iraq.
		Though Nafisi once left a job because she refused to wear the veil and later left her beloved country, her portrayal of Khomeini is not exactly one of a villain.
		Nafisi, who spent years in Norman, Oklahoma, and loves Mike Gold, Gatsby, and Häagen-Dazs (she has the habit of eating coffee ice cream topped with cold coffee and walnuts whenever she's nervous), has some secrets of her own, which are only teasingly revealed to the readers of her memoir.
	www.powells.com /review/2003_05_27.html (1195 words)

	Azar Nafisi
		Nafisi, the author of the current nonfiction hit, Reading Lolita in Tehran, is the first speaker this spring in the Arizona State University Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict’s “Alternative Visions” lecture series.
		Nafisi conducted workshops in Iran for women students on the relationship between culture and human rights and from this experience developed a new curricula for human rights education.
		Nafisi’s op-eds and other articles have been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, The New Republic and the Wall Street Journal, and her New Republic cover story, “The Veiled Threat: The Iranian Revolution’s Woman Problem” has been reprinted in several languages.
	www.asu.edu /feature/nafisi.html (864 words)

	Azar Nafisi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		She is the daughter of Ahmad Nafisi, a former mayor of Tehran, and Nezhat Nafisi, who was among the first women to be elected to the Iranian parliament.
		Nafisi returned to Iran in 1979 where she was a professor of English literature for 18 years at the University of Tehran.
		Nafisi left Iran on June 24, 1997 and moved to the United States, where she wrote Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, a book where she shares her experiences as a woman living and working under the regime of the Islamic Republic.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Azar_Nafisi (711 words)

	Seattle Arts & Lectures - Azar Nafisi
		Azar Nafisi captured worldwide attention with Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (2003), a publishing sensation that spent seventy weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and is translated in over thirty languages.
		Nafisi taught at the University of Tehran as the Islamic revolution raged around her.
		Nafisi lives in Washington, D.C. She teaches at the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies and directs the Dialogue Project, promoting democracy and human rights.
	www.lectures.org /nafisi.html (362 words)

	Amazon.com: Reading "Lolita" in Tehran: Books: Azar Nafisi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This is the story of Azar Nafisi's dream and of the nightmare that made it come true. 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.
		Nafisi's writing is scattered, often flipping back and forth between discussion of a text and discussion of a person or factual event but often not truly distinguishing between the two.
		Azar Nafisi introduces the world to life as a teacher in Iran, from pre-revolutionary days, up through the revolution and war with Iraq, the aftermath and her inevitable, and sadly final, flight from the country.
	www.amazon.com /Reading-Lolita-Tehran-Azar-Nafisi/dp/0007178484 (1816 words)

	KET Presents: Azar Nafisi discusses Reading Lolita in Tehran on Kentucky Author Forum Presents
		Azar Nafisi, who describes the degrading repression and suffocating loss of freedoms during this period in Iran in her memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran, speaks about her experiences on the next Kentucky Author Forum airing Sunday, May 22 at 10/9 p.m.
		Now teaching at Johns Hopkins University, Nafisi was educated in Switzerland, England and the U.S. and taught Western literature at universities in Tehran from 1979 until 1995, when she was fired for refusing to wear a veil.
		Enduring this period of fervent anti-Westernism, Nafisi resisted the efforts of her country to retreat to the 6th century and the time of the prophet Muhammad.
	www.ket.org /pressroom/2005/23/KKAUF_000704_homepage.html (429 words)

	Amardeep Singh: Reading Azar Nafisi as a Literary Critic
		Nafisi sets up the Gatsby reading with her own personal experiences leading up to her first attempts at teaching it at the University of Tehran in 1981.
		Nafisi herself 'was' the novel in the mock trial (the defendent).
		When Nafisi refers to the Ayatollah Khomeini and the other leaders of the Revolution in Iran as "Philosopher- Kings," as she does several times, she knows exactly what she's doing.
	lehigh.edu /~amsp/2005/08/reading-azar-nafisi-as-literary-critic.html (1855 words)

	Kentucky Author Forum presents Azar Nafisi
		Azar Nafisi describes the degrading repression and suffocating loss of freedoms during this period in Iran in her memoir,
		Nafisi will also be the featured speaker at the Annual Minx Auerbach Lecture in Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Louisville on Monday, April 18, 5:30 PM at the Speed Museum Auditorium.
		Educated in the Switzerland and England, Nafisi taught Western literature at universities in Tehran from 1979 until 1995, when she was fired for refusing to wear a veil.
	kaf.louisville.edu /nafisi (1042 words)

	Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books - Reviewed by Judith Ferster - Eclectica Magazine v9n1
		Inspiring, because for Nafisi and her students, literature was a vital, necessary part of their lives; daunting, because the conditions in which they read were deeply hostile to everything Western and everything that Western fiction meant to them.
		Nafisi had given up university teaching only after years of harassment, everything from complaints about her lax habits of securing her headscarf, occasionally letting a strand of hair escape, to attacks on the Faculty of Fine Arts for including in the curriculum "bourgeois" writers like Aeschylus, Racine, and Shakespeare.
		Nafisi taunts the student with becoming as prejudiced and judgmental as Elizabeth Bennett before she learns the truth about Mr.
	www.eclectica.org /v9n1/ferster_nafisi.html (929 words)

	Azar Nafisi Shares Memories of Islamic Revolution in Iran - SFPL.org
		Azar Nafisi, best known as the author of the national bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, comes to the Library on Nov. 9.
		Nafisi attended the University of Oklahoma and later Oxford University and taught literature at three Iranian universities, including the University of Tehran, from which she was expelled for refusing to wear a veil.
		Nafisi left Iran for the U.S. with her family in 1997.
	sfpl.org /news/azarnafisi.htm (367 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Nafisi's account flashes back to the early days of the revolution, when she first started teaching at the University of Tehran amid the swirl of protests and demonstrations.
		Azar Nafisi's luminous tale offers a fascinating portrait of the Iran-Iraq war viewed from Tehran and gives us a rare glimpse, from the inside, of women's lives in revolutionary Iran.
		Azar Nafisi takes us into the vivid lives of eight women who must meet in secret to explore the forbidden fiction of the West.
	www.readinggroupguides.com.cob-web.org:8888 /guides3/reading_lolita_in_tehran1.asp (1117 words)

	Azar Nafisi: Literature Highlights "Uniqueness" (The Council Chronicle, Sept. 04)
		Author and educator Azar Nafisi says this was true of her, and it wasn't until the Islamic Republic of Iran began to restrict those choices that she realized it.
		It wasn't until her own reality was "confiscated," Nafisi says, that she was able to fully appreciate a novel like Lolita, not only for its beauty, but for the sense of compassion she felt for Lolita's predicament.
		Nafisi now teaches at Johns Hopkins University, where she also directs the Dialogue Project, a Web-based initiative dedicated to bridging the Muslim and non-Muslim worlds, and to promoting democracy and human rights in Muslim countries [http://dialogueproject.sais-jhu.edu/].
	www.ncte.org /pubs/chron/highlights/117629.htm (1123 words)

	Reading Lolita in Tehran - Middle East Quarterly
		Reading Lolita in Tehran, a new memoir by Azar Nafisi, is the story of Iran's revolution from the unusual vantage point of an Iranian-born, American-schooled instructor of English literature, who arrived at Tehran University in the revolutionary year of 1979.
		Nafisi's father, a mayor of Tehran whom the shah imprisoned in the 1970s, had sent her abroad as a child, to study in England and Switzerland.
		Azar Nafisi is a professor and director of the Dialogue Project at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University, in Washington.
	www.meforum.org /article/542 (7923 words)

	identity theory \| interviews \| azar nafisi (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Azar Nafisi is a professor at John Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies.
		Azar Nafisi left Iran with her family in 1997.
		Azar Nafisi lives in Washington, D.C. and is director of The Dialogue Project, and she will soon be at work on her next book.
	www.identitytheory.com.cob-web.org:8888 /interviews/birnbaum139.php (5307 words)

	Amazon.ca: Reading Lolita in Tehran: a Memoir in Books: Books: Azar Nafisi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Azar Nafisi, now a professor at John Hopkins, certainly evokes the post-revolutionary hysteria that gripped Tehran with the calm precision which comes from years of outrage and bitter retrospect.
		Nafisi’s fond memories of her hand-picked protégés, and their daily trials and triumphs over family and state, are pitched against her nightmarish recall of the predatoriness of post-revolutionary Tehran, where life was indeed cheap and women even cheaper.
		Nafisi painted a picture of religion being used as an instrument of power that intruded in the personal lives of Iranians after the departure of the Shah.
	www.amazon.ca /Reading-Lolita-Tehran-Memoir-Books/dp/081297106X (2450 words)

	Ex Libris Book Reviews: Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi
		Reading Lolita in Tehran is professor Nafisi's memoir of those years and those that came before, as Nafisi struggled to teach literature whose very characters and stories more often than not offended the Islamic authorities.
		Nafisi follows the lives of her students - their stories, fears, struggles, and triumphs - as each comes to terms with their lives and roles in the world.
		Ultimately many, like Nafisi, will choose to leave Iran, rather to continue to live in a culture where so much of their lives are proscribed.
	www.elise.com /books/el/archives/reading_lolita_in_tehran_azar_nafisi.php (223 words)

	Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi : Booksamillion.com (081297106X, Paperback)
		Nafisi about her homeland, its loves and its losses; about the ways we survive, as women, as human beings, through small acts of bravery and the unconquerable imagination.
		Nafisi’s Iran, where she slowly watches the world as she knew it crumble around her and clings to literature to save herself and her sanity, one becomes a believer.
		As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, fundamentalists seized hold of the universities, and a blind censor stifled artistic expression, the girls in Azar Nafisi's living room risked removing their veils and immersed themselves in the worlds of Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, and Vladimir Nabokov.
	www.booksamillion.com /ncom/books?pid=081297106X (416 words)

	Amazon.com: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books: Books: Azar Nafisi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Azar Nafisi was interviewed recently on PBS radio and her "live" voice is as rich and warm as her written voice in READING LOLITA IN TEHRAN.
		Though Nafisi explains the political events surrounding the Iranian revolution and the Iran-Iraq war, she does so not from the view of the history that's been written, but from the view of a citizen living in the times, providing an essential shift in perspective.
		Nafisi's love of literature is used to good storytelling effect throughout the novel, but at times her parallel threads of reality and fiction can devolve into needless academic pontification.
	www.amazon.com /Reading-Lolita-Tehran-Memoir-Books/dp/081297106X (3229 words)

	NOW: Printable Transcript - David Brancaccio Interviews Azar Nafisi - 6.20.03 \| PBS
		Now director of the Dialogue Project at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advance International Studies in Washington, Azar Nafisi has written READING LOLITA IN TEHRAN about her underground study group and life under the reign of the Ayatollahs.
		AZAR NAFISI: You know, before the revolution I had an image of myself as a woman, as a writer, as an academician, as a person with a set of values.
		And I thought that I can now fulfill a dream and have a group of students who just love literature — who are in it not for the grades, not to just graduate and get a job but just want to read Nabokov or Austen.
	www.pbs.org /now/printable/transcript_nafisi_print.html (1997 words)

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