2004 Non-fiction Book of the Year Award (Booksense), Persian Golden Lioness Award
Azar Nafisi (Persian: آذر نفیسی; born 1948)[Notes 1][1] is an Iranian-American writer and professor of English literature. Born in Tehran, Iran, she has resided in the United States since 1997 and became a U.S. citizen in 2008.[2]
Nafisi has held several academic leadership roles, including director of the Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) Dialogue Project and Cultural Conversations, a Georgetown Walsh School of Foreign Service, Centennial Fellow, and a fellow at Oxford University.[3]
She is the niece of a famous Iranian scholar, fiction writer and poet Saeed Nafisi. Azar Nafisi is best known for her 2003 book Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, which remained on The New York Times Best Seller list for 117 weeks, and has won several literary awards, including the 2004 Non-fiction Book of the Year Award from Booksense.[4][5]
In addition to Reading Lolita in Tehran, Nafisi has authored, Things I've Been Silent About: Memories of a Prodigal Daughter,[6]The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books[7] and That Other World: Nabokov and the Puzzle of Exile.[8] Her newest book, Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times was published March 8, 2022.[9]
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^"Yale University Office of Public Affairs". Opa.yale.edu. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
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^"The Republic of Imagination Classics – Penguin Classics – Because what you read matters. – Penguin Group (USA)". www.penguin.com. Retrieved 2021-12-07.
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AzarNafisi (Persian: آذر نفیسی; born 1948) is an Iranian-American writer and professor of English literature. Born in Tehran, Iran, she has resided in...
or behavior to racism is absurd." In 2006, Dabashi sharply criticized AzarNafisi for her book Reading Lolita in Tehran, stating that "By seeking to recycle...
Naficy, an anthropologist, as well as acclaimed author, AzarNafisi, a niece of his. Nafisi taught in Tehran University, Kabul University, Cairo University...
jealousy of Nafisi. Nafisi married Nezhat Nafisi, and they had a daughter, Azar. He died in 2004. Morteza Rasouli. "An Interview with Ahmad Nafisi, the former...
University's Lisner Auditorium on September 12, 2009, Aghdashloo, author Dr. AzarNafisi, and Dr. Dwight Bashir, Associate Director for Policy at the United States...
Iranian expatriate AzarNafisi published the memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran about a covert women's reading group. In an NPR interview, Nafisi contrasts the...
other authors as Marjane Satrapi, Firoozeh Dumas, Nahid Rachlin, and AzarNafisi. "Lipstick Jihad". Powell's Books. Retrieved 23 March 2014. "Lipstick...
Monthly Press, (2006) Reading Lolita in Tehran: a Memoir in Books by AzarNafisi, p.105 Katz, Mark N. (2010). "Iran and Russia". In Wright, Robin B. (ed...
and Director of Middle East Studies Program, Northeastern University AzarNafisi (born 1948), former lecturer at Tehran University and Johns Hopkins University...
intellectuals including Nazanin Boniadi, Abbas Milani, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, AzarNafisi, Omid Djalili, Eva LaRue, Mohammad Maleki (former president of the University...
Habib Nafisi (December 1908 – 1984) was the founder of Tehran Polytechnic (Amirkabir University of Technology) and Khaje nassir toosi University of technology...
29 9 "The Long Way Home" March 1, 2016 (2016-03-01) Celebrity guests: AzarNafisi, Lidia Bastianich and Julianna Margulies 30 10 "Maps of Stars" March 8...
AzarNafisi (2003) Things I've Been Silent About: Memories Reading Mom and Dad in Tehran The New York Times, 2 January 2009 A Study Guide for Azar Nafisi's...
organization's board of directors include Kenneth Adelman, Farooq Kathwari, AzarNafisi, Mark Palmer, P. J. O'Rourke and Lawrence Lessig, Zbigniew Brzezinski...
overconcern with class or race, and the journalistic generalities we all know. AzarNafisi mentions it and quotes the "falsely" definition in Reading Lolita in...
Joyce Carol Oates (2000), Margaret Atwood (2003), Amy Tan (2007), and AzarNafisi (2008). Loren Pope, former education editor for The New York Times, included...
2003 Sherwin B. Nuland Lost in America: A Journey with My Father 2003 AzarNafisi Reading Lolita in Tehran 2003 Taslima Nasrin Speak Up or Split Into Two...
starring role in the film adaptation of Reading Lolita in Tehran by AzarNafisi, alongside Golshifteh Farahani and Mina Kavani, directed by Eran Riklis...
Amir H. Ladan Abbas Marufi Abbas Milani Melody Moezzi Aziz Motazedi AzarNafisi Khosro Naghed Shahrnush Parsipur Hamid Sadr Alexios Schandermani Mahbod...
of Houston-Downtown Dora Levy Mossanen, author of historical fiction AzarNafisi, writer, best known for Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books Gina...
International Prize was judged by John Carey (Chair), Alberto Manguel and AzarNafisi. The nominees were announced on 2 June 2005 at Georgetown University...
agent Wendy Strothman from working with Ebadi. AzarNafisi wrote a letter in support of Ebadi. Nafisi said that the law infringes on the First Amendment...
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