Azar Nafisi

Azar Nafisi, bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran, talks about her new memoir about family life in Iran. It’s called Things I’ve Been Silent About.

Events:
Azar Nafisi will be speaking and signing books tonight at 7:30 pm.
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This week, throughout the Islamic world, embassies were attacked, flags burned, and journalists threatened over a series of satirical cartoons published by a Danish newspaper. Kurt Andersen and Professor Azar Nafisi discuss why the row is less about the power of an image than ...

Kurt and Azar Nafisi talk about how artists around the world view American art and culture. Nafisi is a professor at Johns Hopkins University, and the author of a critical study of Vladimir Nabokov's novels published in Iran. She taught literature in English at the University of Tehran, the Free ...

Azar Nafisi is a professor at Johns Hopkins University, and the author of a critical study of Vladimir Nabokov's novels published in Iran. She taught literature in English at the University of Tehran, the Free Islamic University, and Allameh Tabatabai University. She was expelled from the University of Tehran for ...