Reading Lolita in Tehran - Penguin Modern Classics
Reading Lolita in Tehran - Penguin Modern Classics
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Published:
2 July, 2015
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780241246238 |
| ISBN10 | 0241246237 |
| Number Of Pages | 368 |
| Item Weight | 268 g |
| Product Dimensions | 128 x 197 x 23 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format | paperback |
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Author's Bio
Azar Nafisi is a visiting professor and the director of the Dialogue Project at the Foreign Policy Institute of Johns Hopkins University. She has taught Western literature at the University of Tehran, the Free Islamic University, and the University of Allameh Tabatabai in Iran. In 1981 she was expelled from the University of Tehran after refusing to wear the veil. In 1994 she won a teaching fellowship from Oxford University, and in 1997 she and her family left Iran for America. She is the author of The Republic of Imagination and Things I've Been Silent About, and lives in Washington D.C. with her husband and two children.