Azar Nafisi is an author. Most well-known for her best-seller Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, her most recent book is Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times. For 20 years, Nafisi was a fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute of Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, where she was a professor of culture and literature and directed a project on cultural conversations. She has also taught and held fellowships at other universities, including University of Tehran and Oxford University. A contributor to The New York Times and more, Nafisi also authored That Other World: Nabokov and the Puzzle of Exile; The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books; and Things I’ve Been Silent About.
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Be it in her commanding, critically acclaimed written works or her masterfully insightful lectures, author and professor Azar Nafisi has given so many others the space and lan...