Reading Lolita in Tehran
Publication details: New York. Random House. 8/22/2008Edition: PBKDescription: 356 pISBN:- 081297106X 9780812971064
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Prof. Nafisi resigned from her job as professor of English Literature at a university in Tehran in 1995 due to repressive government policies. For the next 2 years, until she left Iran, she gathered 7 young women, former students, at her house every Thursday morning to read and discuss works of Western literature forbidden by the new regime. They used this forum to learn to speak freely, not onl
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