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Azar Nafisi is the author of Reading Lolita in Tehran and the new memoir Things I've Been Silent About. She is a visiting professor and the director of the SAIS Dialogue Project at the Foreign Policy Institute of Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, where she is a professor of aesthetics, culture, and literature, and teaches courses on the relation between culture and politics.

Azar Nafisis Nightstand

Azar Nafisi's Nightstand

The author of Reading Lolita in Tehran recommends a book for President Obama and shares some of her favorite reads. ...

Posted 6:37 AM | Jun 30, 2009
Family Secrets in Tehran

Family Secrets in Tehran

In an exclusive excerpt from her new book, Things I've Been Silent About: Memories, Azar Nafisi, the author of Readi...

Posted 9:00 AM | Jan 10, 2009