Azar Nafisi
Azar Nafisi is the author of the multi-award-winning New York Times bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran, as well as Things I've Been Silent About, and The Republic of Imagination . Formerly a Fellow at Johns Hopkins University's Foreign Policy Institute, she has taught at Oxford and several universities in Tehran, and she is currently Centennial Fellow at Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service. Nafisi has written for publications that include The New York Times, The Washington...See more
Azar Nafisi is the author of the multi-award-winning New York Times bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran, as well as Things I've Been Silent About, and The Republic of Imagination . Formerly a Fellow at Johns Hopkins University's Foreign Policy Institute, she has taught at Oxford and several universities in Tehran, and she is currently Centennial Fellow at Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service. Nafisi has written for publications that include The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, and The Wall Street Journal. She lives in Washington, D.C. See less
Azar Nafisi's Featured Books
Azar Nafisi book reviews
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
by bill d, May 5, 2011
a must read to have an inkling of middle-east mentality and its suppression of women Read More
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Things I've Been Silent About: Memories
Touching and Informative
I learned a lot about the history of Iran and the revolution from this book, as well as the smells, sounds, and things that are important to Nafisi as an Iranian woman who has lived around the world. ... Read More
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Eye opening
by dmcf, Apr 1, 2010
Reading Lolita In Tehran is a true story about freedom and captivity, gentleness and brutality, love and war. The reader is horrified at the indignities heaped upon women and at the same time touched ... Read More