Reading Lolita in Tehran pdf

Adar Nafisi (born 1947) is an Iranian writer, professor at Johns Hopkins University. She holds a fellowship from Oxford University and worked in Iran as a professor of English literature at the University of Tehran, the Islamic Open University and Allameh Tabatabai University. She was expelled from the University of Tehran because of her refusal to wear the headscarf. She left Iran for the United States in 1997. She wrote many articles in newspapers such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and New York Republic, and appeared in many interviews and broadcasts. television. She currently lives in Washington DC with her husband and two children.

Reading Lolita in Tehran pdf by adhar nafisiun

Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. 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. In this extraordinary memoir, their stories become intertwined with the ones they are reading. Reading Lolita in Tehran is a remarkable exploration of resilience in the face of tyranny and a celebration of the liberating power of literature.