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Azar Nafisi
Professor, Johns Hopkins University
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In The Eyes Of The World, A Reimagined Iraq
Iraq seems to have entered the world’s consciousness mainly through violence _ through murderous coups, brutal suppression of Iraqi citizens and, for the past three decades, wars and invasions. Today, five years after the start of the U.S.-led invasion, whenever Iraq appears in the news, references to suicide bombs, casualty numbers, the military “surge” and [...]
November 25, 2008, 2:51 AM
BBC Podcast: Children of the Revolution
With unprecedented challenges facing the Islamic Republic of Iran 30 years after the Revolution, the 50 million Iranians who are under 30 (of the 70 million population), will have by far the biggest impact on the future of Iran and the shape the Islamic regime will take in the years to come. In two compelling programmes, [...]
November 9, 2008, 10:05 PM
Support Iranian Women: Join the One Million Signatures Campaign
SUPPORT IRANIAN WOMEN Sign the “One Million Signatures” campaign petition calling for an end to discriminatory laws against women such as men’s uncontested right to divorce, polygamy, and child custody. English petition » Persian petition » Iranian parliament submits new legislation attempting to push back current family laws; in response Iranian women’s rights activists take action The Iranian [...]
October 22, 2007, 6:01 PM
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September 1, 2007, 1:45 AM
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. The book has spent over 117 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Azar Nafisi’s new book, Things I Have Been Silent About: Memories, a memoir about her mother, was published in January 2009.
Azar Nafisi is a Visiting Professor and the executive director of Cultural Conversations 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. She has taught at the University of Tehran, the Free Islamic University and Allameh Tabatabaii.
