Writers Center Stage
Azar Nafisi
The Ohio Theatre
• April 29, 2008 • 7:30 PM •
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The final curtain of the season rises for...
Dr. Azar Nafisi!
Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran
and a Johns Hopkins University professor,
speaks about the political implications of
literature and culture during times of change
and her experiences teaching in Iran.
Azar Nafisi has written forWashington Post, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. Her The New Republic cover story, "The Veiled Threat: The Iranian Revolution's Woman Problem" (February 22, 1999) has been reprinted into several languages.
Sneak Preview
Get a Sneak Preview of the Writers Center Stage featured author before she comes to Cleveland! Cuyahoga County Public Library's Literature Specialist, Laurie von Mehren, will introduce you to her work, tell you about her life, and share interesting highlights:
Wednesday, April 23, 7:00 PM at the Mayfield Library
BIOGRAPHY
Highlights of Nafisi’s life from Biography Resource Center, a library research database. (may take awhile to load)
Websites
Get to know the author better through her own web site, with links to her books, articles, blog, reading list, recommended websites, and contact information.
Nafisi shares her credo in “Mysterious Connections that Link Us Together” as part of the National Public Radio series “This I Believe.”
(Audio, 5 mins.)
Nafisi speaking last year at a forum for Facing History and Ourselves, a non-profit organization working against racism and prejudice.
(Video, 9 mins.)
A better world through literature is Nafisi’s dream in this article published in The Washington Post (2004). “The Republic of the Imagination” is also the working title for her new book on the liberating power of literature.
(.pdf file requiring Adobe Reader)
Conversational and generously detailed interview from Identity Theory, a literary web site (2004).
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Works By Nafisi
A breathtakingly moving story of a group of young women and their clandestine meetings to read and discuss forbidden works of Western literature, and of Azar Nafisi's experiences teaching English literature in Iran.
Nafisi's luminous tale offers a fascinating portrait of the Iran-Iraq war viewed from Tehran and gives us a rare glimpse, from the inside, of women's lives in revolutionary Iran.
Book on Cassette
Book on CD
Large Print
Bookable Discussion Set
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