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波士頓書評 Boston Review of Books Podcast阿扎爾·納菲西（Azar Nafisi） | 面紗的威脅：伊朗革命中的女性問題編者按：最近，一名未戴頭巾、長髮披肩的女孩，用正在焚燒的伊朗最高領袖哈梅內伊的照片點燃香煙的照片成為了最近伊朗抵抗運動的象徵。今天，書評推出伊朗女作家阿扎爾·納菲西（Azar Nafisi）的文章《面紗的威脅：伊朗革命中的婦女問題The Veiled Threat: The Iranian Revolution’s Woman Problem》，文章通過四張照片和圖片，講述了百年來伊朗女性的遭遇與抗爭。這篇文章1999年2月22日發表於《The New Republic》雜誌。在文章末尾，納菲西教授說，20世紀末的伊朗女性，正像世紀初那樣，站在爭取開放、多元社會的鬥爭中心，這種對稱簡直像藝術一樣美麗。而今天，2026年的伊朗女性，依然繼續站在抗爭的前沿，依然像藝術一樣美。本文原文為英文，作者阿扎爾·納菲西（Azar Nafisi）授權翻譯刊發。面紗的威脅：伊朗革命中的女性問題作者：阿扎爾·納菲西（Azar Nafisi）我想從一幅畫開始談起。這幅畫是埃德加·德加（Edgar Degas）的《舞者在練習桿前》（Dancers Practicing at the Bar），最近，這幅畫被收錄在伊朗伊斯蘭共和國出版的一本藝術書中。在「空間組織」這個標題下，書中對德加如何安排芭蕾舞者給出了兩段解釋：「兩個主要形體被擁擠地置於畫面的右上象限，其餘畫布則留作開闊空間……」看到這裡，似乎一切正常。但就像今日伊朗的許多事情一樣，事實並非如此。若是仔細檢視之後，你會發現這幅圖伴隨的說明有著令人不安的錯誤，這讓整幅畫以及它那嚴肅的討論都變得荒謬而不真實：那兩位芭蕾舞者她們已經被數位修圖抹去了。你能看到的，只是空蕩蕩的空間、地板、空白的牆壁，以及那根練習桿。就像伊朗其他無數女性的形象一樣，這些芭蕾舞者被審查、被刪除了。當然，諷刺的是，審查者通過抹除那些舞者，反而讓她們成為我們注意力的焦點。因為她們的缺席，她們反而成為了更加醒目的存在。而這種存在方式，讓德加的這幅畫成為了如今伊朗生活基本悖論的象徵，這是1979年伊斯蘭革命二十週年前夕。一方面，執政的伊斯蘭政權已經成功地徹底壓制了伊朗女性。女性被禁止出現在公開場合，除非全身覆蓋，只露出手和臉。在所有政府機構、大學和機場，都有專門為女性設置的入口，在那裡她們會被搜查口紅以及其他「大規模殺傷性武器」。任何再小的違規都無法逃脫。在我曾經任教的大學，一位女性因為「咯咯的笑聲」而受到懲罰。而且就在最近，一位女教授因為在黑板上寫字時袖子滑落露出手腕而被開除。然而，雖然這些措施旨在讓女性變得隱形且無力，但它們卻帶來了悖論般的結果，反而讓女性變得極其顯眼且強大。政權試圖控制並塑造女性生活的每一個面向，並將其合法性建立在伊朗人民據稱渴望這種控制之上，卻無意中交給了女性一件強有力的武器：如今，每一個違反官方規定的私人行為或姿態，都成為強烈的政治宣言。與此同時，因為政權對女性生活的極端管制必然也侵入男性的私人生活（男性與女性的每一次互動都受到嚴格規範），政權不僅疏遠了女性，也讓許多最初支持革命的男性感到疏離。伊斯蘭統治精英與伊朗整個社會之間的這種緊張關係，被西方對伊朗的觀察者大大低估了。這部分原因是，在過去20年裡，美國的分析家和學者，以及伊朗的流亡社群，幾乎或完全無法進入伊朗。因此，他們過度依賴伊朗執政的神職人員所呈現的形象。目前，他們展現的形象似乎更加開放，其象徵便是1997年溫和派神職人員穆罕默德·哈塔米當選總統。例如，最近CNN興高采烈地告訴我們，在經過20年之後，伊斯蘭共和國開始播放好萊塢電影。但CNN沒有提到的是，伊朗電視台播放的《瑪麗·包萍》，實際影片內容不到45分鐘。所有涉及女性跳舞或唱歌的部分都被剪掉，取而代之的是由伊朗敘述者來描述。在《大力水手》中，所有出現奧莉芙·奧伊爾的場景都被刪除，因為她的形象以及她與大力水手的關係被視為淫穢。與此同時，即使政權聲稱對美國的敵對態度有所軟化，但對那些膽敢對美國文化表現出興趣的伊朗人，懲罰並未減輕。事實上，哈塔米上任後不久，他的新教育部長就頒布了一項新指令，禁止學生將帶有拉丁字母或其他墮落西方符號的物品帶進教室。然而，這些只是哈塔米統治時期所謂的新開放伴隨著加劇壓迫的最溫和例子。他當選後短暫的春天期間，言論自由在公開示威和新報紙中蓬勃發展，但這一切隨著突如其來的鎮壓而迅速結束。此後，政府禁止了大多數新報紙，並騷擾或監禁其編輯。他們後來已被釋放。許多利用這次開放機會抗議現行法律制度的進步派神職人員也被逮捕，其中一人甚至被褫奪神職。政權也趁機加強對伊朗巴哈伊少數族群成員的打壓。與此同時，議會通過了共和國歷史上針對女性的兩項最反動的法律。第一項要求所有醫療設施按性別隔離。第二項則禁止在雜誌封面上刊登任何「製造性別之間的衝突，並違反伊斯蘭法律」的女性的照片，以及任何形式的文字。去年秋天，兩位民族主義反對派領袖達里烏什·弗魯哈爾（Daryush Forouhar）和帕爾瓦內·弗魯哈爾（Parvaneh Forouhar）被謀殺，三位知名作家失蹤。這三位作家後來都被發現死亡。許多伊朗人感到憤怒，數萬人參加了弗魯哈爾夫婦的葬禮，這是一種默契的抗議。政府最初的回應讓這些伊朗人看到了一些希望。哈塔米總統譴責了這些殺戮，並成立了一個委員會來調查。委員會的第一個結論是，兇手是情報部（Information Ministry）的成員。然而，幾天之內，委員會又提出了不同的說法，聲稱經過再三調查，兇手只是情報部內的一個流氓小組，這些殺戮並非政治性的。委員會至今仍未指名道姓兇手，更不用說將他們繩之以法。憤怒的伊朗人紛紛向進步派報紙投遞憤怒的電話和信件。西方媒體大多將這些事件視為溫和派哈塔米與其反動派神職同僚之間鬥爭的表現。更常見的情況是，媒體將壓迫行為描繪成強硬派針對哈塔米所採取的措施，就好像哈塔米，而不是那些被謀殺或壓迫的人，才是真正的受害者。這種將哈塔米與強硬派對立的簡單化描繪，完全誤解了伊朗當前的局勢。哈塔米並不代表伊朗的反對派，而且他也不可能代表。的確，為了贏得廣大民眾的支持，他必須提出拆除伊斯蘭共和國一些基本支柱的議程。但為了甚至有資格參選，他必須擁有無可挑剔的政治和宗教資歷。換句話說，他必須，而且顯然是，致力於維護他那些選民極力反對的意識形態本身。因此，哈塔米的任期揭示了伊斯蘭政權面臨的核心困境。為了維持人民的支援，政府必須進行改革，但它不否定自身便無法改革。其結果就是一種混亂，一個以任意性為標誌的時期：有一天授予一種新的自由，第二天就取消一種原有的自由。這兩種事件都是伊朗當前激烈鬥爭的表現，不僅僅是哈塔米與反動派神職人員之間的鬥爭，更是伊朗人民與所有政府代表之間的鬥爭。而這場鬥爭的核心，正是關於女性權利的戰鬥。第二個浮現在腦海中的形象是一位來自過去的女性：法羅克魯·帕爾薩（Farrokhroo Parsa）博士。就像那些芭蕾舞者一樣，她的在場是透過她的缺席而被感受到的。我試著在腦海中回憶她的身影。帕爾薩放棄了她的醫學事業，成為我青少年時期就讀的德黑蘭女子學校的校長。慢慢地，她那圓潤而嚴肅的臉龐出現在我眼前，就像當年她站在學校門外檢查學生進樓時那樣。她的笑容總是伴隨著一絲皺眉的陰影，似乎害怕我們會利用那抹笑容，背叛她為學校所創造的願景。那個願景，也是她一生的目標，就是讓我們這些女孩「真正」可以受到教育。在巴列維國王時期，帕爾薩是伊朗最早當選國會議員的女性之一，之後在1968年，她成為伊朗首位女性內閣部長，負責高等教育。在這個職位上，帕爾薩不僅試圖提升教育品質，還致力於清除學校教科書中對女性的性別歧視形象。當國王（巴列維國王）在1979年被推翻時，革命者對前政府的一群職能官員進行了草率審判並處決。其中一位就是前婦女事務部長法羅克魯·帕爾薩。在對她的審判中，她被指控「在地上腐敗」、「與上帝為敵」，以及「擴大賣淫」。她不被允許有辯護律師，由蒙面法官宣判。當時，新革命政權對自己的處決行動感到極為驕傲，甚至公開宣傳這些處決，並在事後在報紙上刊登受害者的照片。但帕爾薩的照片從未被刊登。更為特殊的是，在那個本就特殊的時代，她的死亡方式極其異常。在被殺害之前，她被裝進一個麻袋。這種行為背後唯一的邏輯，只能是聲稱伊斯蘭教禁止男性觸碰女性的身體，即使是在她死亡的時候。關於她處決方法的細節存在一些爭議。有些說她是被毆打致死，有些說是被石刑處死，還有些說是被機槍掃射。不過，她被謀殺的核心形象始終不變：一個活生生、有呼吸的女性，被弄得無形、無狀，只為了維護行刑者的「美德」與「尊嚴」。我已經很多年沒有想起帕爾薩，直到她被處決的消息將她從我的記憶中復活。自那之後，我一次又一次試圖想像她死亡的那一刻。然而，雖然我能清晰看見她生前那帶著笑容卻又微微皺眉的臉龐，我卻無法想像在那個黑暗麻袋中，她的笑容與皺眉永遠消失的那一瞬間，她的臉部表情會是什麼樣子。她是否能夠預見，不久之後，她的學生以及她學生的學生，也會在活著的時候被弄得無形無狀、隱形不見，而不是在死亡中？在更廣的層面看，這正是神職人員對所有伊朗女性所做的事。大阿亞圖拉霍梅尼幾乎在奪取權力後立即開始收回女性辛苦爭取來的權利。他為自己的行為辯護，聲稱他實際上是在恢復女性的尊嚴，將她們從西方帝國主義者及其代理人（其中包括巴列維國王）強加給她們的墮落而危險的思想中拯救出來。在提出這項政策時
2026-01-1933 min
KPFA - Radio WolinskyAzar Nafisi: Best-selling Author of “Reading Lolita in Tehran,” 2009Azar Nafisi,author of the best-selling memoir, “Reading Lolita in Tehran,” in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky, recorded in the KPFA studios on January 12, 2009 while on tour for the memoir, “Things I’ve Been Silent About.”
Azar Nafisi burst on the literary scene in 2003 with her memoir, Reading Lolita in Tehran in 2003, which remained on the New York Times best seller list for 117 weeks. Born in Tehran, Iran, she came to the United States in 1997 and became an American citizen in 2008. A professor of literature, she’d previously written a critical study of the works of Vladimir Nabokov.
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BookOdysseyReading Lolita in Tehran by Azar NafisiThis document synthesizes the core themes and narrative arcs from Azar Nafisi's memoir, Reading Lolita in Tehran. The memoir chronicles the author's experience teaching Western literature to a select group of seven female students in her Tehran home amidst the oppressive political and social climate of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The central thesis is that works of imagination—specifically Western novels—provided a crucial sanctuary and a powerful form of resistance against a totalitarian regime determined to confiscate individual identity.
2025-12-1928 min
KPFA - Bookwaves/ArtwavesBookwaves/Artwaves – November 27, 2025: Malcolm Margolin – Azar NafisiBookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky.
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Malcolm Margolin (1940-2025): Legendary Berkeley Publisher
Malcolm Margolin (1940-2025), the long-time publisher of Heyday Books in Berkeley, who died on August 20, 2025 at the age of 84, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky in the KPFA Studios on November 21, 2014.
Malcolm Margolin founded Heyday Books, the renownedy non-profit publishing house located in Berkeley, in 1974 and stayed until he retired in 2015. He was the author and editor of several books, most notably The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in t...
2025-11-2759 min
Kölncampus - FilmspurLolita lesen in Teheran - wie lesen befreitDas Drama basiert auf der gleichnamigen Autobiografie der iranischen Literaturprofessorin Azar Nafisi und erzählt, wie Nafisi im Iran einen heimlichen Buchclub gründet. In dem Club liest sie mit ihren Studentinnen verbotene westliche Bücher. Jetzt ist ihre Autobiografie selbst Ist eines der Zensur zum opfergefallen Bücher im Iran. Und trotzdem oder besser gesagt genau deswegen wurde der Film letztes Jahr beim Festa del Cinema di Roma mit dem Publikumspreis ausgezeichnet. Auch meine Kollegin Luna ist von dem Film begeistert und sie erzählt uns jetzt, worum es in “Lolita lesen in Teheran” genau geht und was der Film in i...
2025-11-2603 min
Ciao MondoCiao Mondo - Ep. 1 - Libri che salvano la vita - Azar NAFISI Leggere Lolita a TeheranI libri possono essere un rifugio, una forma di sopravvivenza, un atto di resistenza.Nel primo episodio di questo podcast, vi racconto di Azar Nafisi e del suo memoir Leggere Lolita a Teheran. Un libro che nasce dagli incontri privati tra l’autrice e le sue studentesse iraniane negli anni ’90: attorno a romanzi proibiti come Lolita, Madame Bovary o Il grande Gatsby, quelle giovani donne trovavano uno spazio di libertà e immaginazione in una società che voleva cancellare la loro voce.Attraverso le sue parole, riflettiamo sul potere salvifico della letteratura, sul diritt...
2025-09-1643 min
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2025-09-0300 min
Cine y LibertadLeer 'Lolita' en Teherán-Un canto a la libertad Azar Nafisi, perseguida por el régimen iraní.Leer 'Lolita' en Teherán-Un canto a la libertad Azar Nafisi, perseguida por el régimen iraní. ¿Qué nos ofrecen los clásicos de la literatura universal?
Por cierto, con motivo de la publicación de mi libro: La fe, la ética y los valores de los superhéroes: https://www.ppc-editorial.com/libro/la-fe-la-etica-y-los-valores-de-los-superheroes , estuve firmando en la caseta 142 de PPC en la feria del libro de Madrid.
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Cada jueves por la mañana a lo largo de dos años, Azar Nafi...
2025-07-2503 min
Don't Read DrunkEpisode 146: Read Dangerously by Azar NafisiIf you’re participating in dry January or not, enjoy an Athletic All Out Extra Dark while I share this week’s book, Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature During Troubled Times by Azar NafisiSupport this podcast on Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/dontreaddrunkAzar NafisiAzar NafisiAzar Nafisi WikiAzar Nafisi - WikipediaAthletic Brewinghttps://athleticbrewing.com/Esquire12 Best Non-Alcoholic Beers of 2024Dolmas RecipeBEST Stuffed Grape Leaves (Dolmas) - The Mediterranean DishGet 60 days...
2025-01-1629 min
St. John's College (Santa Fe) LecturesAn evening with Azar Nafisi
Audio recording of a lecture given on April 17, 2015 by Azar Nafisi as part of the Dean's Lecture and Concert Series.
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pordenonelegge.it - festa del libro e della libertàAzar Nafisi - La storia in un romanzoConsegna ufficiale del premio Crédit Agricole “La storia in un romanzo” alla scrittrice Azar Nafisi. Seguirà l’incontro con l’autrice intervistata da Alberto Garlini
Nel suo ultimo libro, Leggere pericolosamente, Azar Nafisi torna a immergersi nei libri che più ha amato, e ci mostra, intrecciando racconto autobiografico e riflessione sulla letteratura, come le abbiano insegnato a dubitare della soffocante dicotomia tra aggressore e vittima; a vedere nell’odio e nella rabbia, in apparenza capaci di conferire identità, una fuga dal dolore. Le grandi opere letterarie sono pericolose, giacché smascherano ogni impulso ti...
2024-12-0657 min
Fred English Channel » FRED English Podcast“Reading Lolita in Teheran”, interview with director Eran Riklis and Book author Azar NafisiReading Lolita in Teheran by Eran Riklis, premiering at Rome Film Fest brings on the big screen the freedom and power of the book by Azar Nafisi The post “Reading Lolita in Teheran”, interview with director Eran Riklis and Book author Azar Nafisi appeared first on Fred Film Radio.
2024-10-2109 min
FRED Film Radio - English Channel“Reading Lolita in Teheran”, interview with director Eran Riklis and Book author Azar NafisiFrom the best seller book by Iranian author Azar Nafisi comes the film "Reading Lolita in Teheran" by Eran Riklis.
The film premiered at the 19th Rome Film Fest where it was shot as it is an international co-production.
"Reading Lolita in Teheran" brings to cinema life the real and intimate story of women in Iran, fighting the regime with literature, art, trying to save their souls.
Along with Azar Nafisi and the entire cast of the film, Israeli director Eran Riklis tells us about the work he did on adapting the book to the big screen as Azar Nafisi’s...
2024-10-2009 min
Access Utah'Read Dangerously' with Azar Nafisi on Access UtahToday our guest is writer Azar Nafisi. We’ll talk about her new book "Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times."
2024-08-1952 min
𝐒𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐢 𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐥'𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐫𝐨 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐨 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑 - 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒Azar Nafisi 𝘉𝘪𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘧𝘪𝘢, 𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘢 𝘦 𝘪𝘮𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘻𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘦Azar Nafisi آذر نفیسی nasce a Teheran nel 1948. Scrittrice riconosciuta globalmente, il suo metodo biografico è stato letto come dispositivo attraverso cui riscrivere il trauma oltre che spazio di costruzione di soggettività. Cresciuta in Iran, si trasferisce prima in Europa e poi negli Stati Uniti d’America per completare gli studi e conseguire un dottorato. Torna a Teheran nel 1979 per insegnare letteratura inglese. Qui, portata a lasciare l’università dove insegnava a causa di pressioni da parte dello stato iraniano, trasforma la propria casa in uno spazio di discussione letteraria a cui prenderanno parte attiva e costituente alcune delle sue studenti. Da questa esper...
2024-06-2053 min
Breandáin O'SheaAzar Nafisi AuthorAzar Nafisi, a captivating literary voice, is renowned for her profound exploration of the power of literature to shape lives and societies. Born in Iran and educated in the United States, Nafisi's unique perspective bridges cultures, offering readers a deeper understanding of the human experience. Best known for her memoir "Reading Lolita in Tehran," which vividly recounts her experiences teaching Western literature in post-revolutionary Iran, Nafisi has become a symbol of courage and intellectual freedom. Her eloquent prose and insightful reflections continue to resonate with readers worldwide, inspiring dialogue and fostering empathy. In an exclusive interview with Breandáin O'Shea, N...
2024-02-1312 min
60 Weeks 60 BooksWeek 49 Reading Lolita in TehranAzar Nafisi is an impressive woman, and it is interesting to note that the relatively few dismissive critics of this wonderful book were from a masculine perspective. Women reading, thinking and generating their own ideas and perspectives have always been a threat to the established order. Nafisi's critical memoir explores the how and the why during the 18 years she spent trying to raise a family, maintain a teaching career and keep her veil covering her hair. Just how dangerous it is to challenge the Hijab and Chastity laws enacted in recent months is becoming increasingly clear. But the signs were...
2024-01-0617 min
Znak na głosStacja: literatura na głos | Anna Marchewka o niebezpiecznym czytaniu Azar NafisiDlaczego Platon uważał poetów za niebezpiecznych? To niebezpieczeństwo związane było z wyobraźnią, która wymagana jest zarówno do tworzenia literatury, jak i do jej odbioru. Ta nieskrępowana wyobraźnia jest prostą drogą do odkrycia wolności, do działań wywrotowych.Lektura wiązana jest często z samotnością, kojarzona z odwrotem od świata. Studentki Azar Nafisi, bohaterki dzisiejszego podcastu, odkrywały, że nie są same. Lektura u Nafisi okazuje się być aktem niezgody, elementem ruchu oporu prowadzącym do odzyskiwania wolności, ale też jest to taki ruch oporu, który umożliwia z tym ś...
2023-12-2334 min
Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics PodcastWe Discuss Today’s Nobel Peace Prize Winner With Azar Nafisi and Summer LopezThe jailed Iranian women's rights activist Narges Mohammadi, is this year's recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
On Today's Show:Summer Lopez, chief program officer of Free Expression Programs at PEN America and Azar Nafisi, author of many books including Reading Lolita in Tehran and most recently Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times (Dey Street Books, 2022), discuss Mohammadi's work, and the importance, and difficulties of speaking truth to power.
2023-10-0620 min
The Seattle Public Library - Author Readings and Library EventsAzar Nafisi reads from 'The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books'Ten years ago, "Reading Lolita in Tehran" told the story of how, against the backdrop of morality squads and executions, Nafisi taught "The Great Gatsby" and other classics to her eager students in Iran. In this follow-up, Nafisi writes an impassioned and original tribute to the vital importance of fiction in a democratic society. What “Reading Lolita in Tehran" was for Iran, "The Republic of Imagination "is for America.Taking her cue from a challenge thrown to her in Seattle, where a skeptical reader told her that Americans don't care about books the way they did back in Iran, she en...
2023-09-1532 min
Letture incrociate Dialoghi tra generazioni e cultureLeggere Lolita a TeheranLeggere Lolita a Teheran / Azar Nafisi 8. Ed Milano : Adelphi, 2008Leggere Lolita a Teheran è un best seller scritto da Azar Nafisi, nel 2003, professoressadi letteratura inglese presso l’università di Teheran trasferitasi nel 1997 negli Stati Uniti.Lo spunto del libro viene dall’esperienza vissuta dall’autrice con sette studentesseiraniane di letteratura inglese nei due decenni successivi alla rivoluzione di Khomeini,mentre le strade e i campus di Teheran erano teatro di violenze barbare. Azar Nafisi sicimenta nell’impresa di spiegare a ragazzi e ragazze, esposti in misura crescente allacatechesi islamica, una delle più...
2023-06-1920 min
NPR's Book of the DayAuthor Azar Nafisi says books can help you really liveAuthor Azar Nafisi has written a love letter to literature and reading in Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times. She does this in a series of letters to her late father who passed on in 2004. Nafisi says that reading can help us really live and also help us, and has helped her, survive challenging times. Nafisi told NPR's Scott Simon that literature's purpose is to let us experience new worlds: "to come out of yourself, and join the other."Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
2023-04-1908 min
Real Fiction RadioAzar NafisiReal Fiction re-airs a conversation with Azar Nafisi during Women's History Month. Her most recent book READING DANGEROUSLY: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times. (With expanded content for the KXCV and podcast audience)
2023-03-2929 min
0.25- Letteratura da bar2.2 Leggere Lolita a Teheran di Azar NafisiDopo le rivolte a Teheran ci siamo interrogate a lungo su cosa stesse succedendo in Iran. Ne parliamo con Sara e Azar Nafisi con il suo testo “Leggere Lolita a Teheran”.
2022-11-2819 min
Book DreamsEp. 126 - Read Dangerously, with Azar NafisiHow can reading a novel become an act of political rebellion? This is one of the important questions we take up with Azar Nafisi, author of the memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran. Azar’s latest book is Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times. In it, she focuses on the parallels and connections between the totalitarian mindset in Iran and totalitarian tendencies in the United States. Azar notes that tyrants and writers in both countries seek to recreate reality, tyrants by telling us that the truth is what they say it is, and writers by excavating th...
2022-11-0328 min
The Colin McEnroe Show‘Literature as resistance’: Azar Nafisi on the subversive power of reading in troubled timesAzar Nafisi is the author of Reading Lolita in Tehran, which spent 117 weeks on the New York Times Best Sellers list. Her newest book, Read Dangerously, argues that reading literature, reading challenging, dangerous literature is foundational and fundamental to continued democracy. Imagination, itself, she says, is a threat to autocracy and totalitarianism. Imagination is inherently, by definition, “free and wayward.” “It should be clear by now that when I talk about books,” Nafisi writes, “I am not talking about literature of resistance but literature as resistance.” Azar Nafisi joins us for the hour.
2022-09-2950 min
Journey of an Aesthete Podcasthttps://www.jouneyofanaesthetepodcast.com/Season 4, October 2002 "Book Lunch" Featuring Azar Nafisi's new book, "Read Dangerously!"Enjoy our October “Book Lunch”, as we welcome special guest author and public intellectual Azar Nafisi back to our show to discuss her new book Read Dangerously!
More on this episode from Mitch’s notebook
“While I do love to speak freely and spontaneously on a book that has become close to my heart or seems central to our collective lives in a moment or "snapshot" (as I would formulate it), there is simply nothing as powerful and valuable as being able to communicate with the author of the book in question in the moment.
Th...
2022-09-2751 min
Memoir NationHow to Follow Your Passions When the Creative Expression Feels Elusive, featuring Charlie Jane Anders and Azar NafisiIn our final summer episode, we bring you two voices of advocacy in an episode that will both stoke your passions and remind you to be gentle with yourself at the same time. Guests Charlie Jane Anders and Azar Nafisi both speak to why we must write our truths, pay attention, bear witness, and remember the power of one person’s voice and words to save and change lives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2022-08-2933 minMemoir NationHow to Follow Your Passions When the Creative Expression Feels Elusive, featuring Charlie Jane Anders and Azar NafisiIn our final summer episode, we bring you two voices of advocacy in an episode that will both stoke your passions and remind you to be gentle with yourself at the same time. Guests Charlie Jane Anders and Azar Nafisi both speak to why we must write our truths, pay attention, bear witness, and remember the power of one person’s voice and words to save and change lives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://ar...
2022-08-2931 minAccess Utah'Read Dangerously' with Azar Nafisi on Wednesday's Access UtahNext time on Access Utah we’ll revisit our conversation from March with writer Azar Nafisi. We’ll talk about her new book “Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times.”
2022-08-2551 min
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life535: A Discussion of Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran, with Rachael Tillman!This week, Rachael Tillman and I discuss Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran, a long overdue read for both of us.
2022-08-061h 24
The VaultSamantha Power on Hannah Arendt and Human RightsIn this episode from the Institute’s Vault, Samantha Power describes how Hannah Arendt influenced her thinking about politics and human rights. Power spoke during a two day symposium-- “Hannah Arendt Right Now”--which explored the philosopher’s impact on the 21st Century. The 2006 event was held on the hundredth anniversary of Arendt’s birth.Samantha Power was Barack Obama’s human rights adviser, and then served as the US Ambassador to the United Nations. She is the author of several books, including A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, which won the 2003 Pulitzer prize. She is...
2022-07-2748 min
New Books in LawSamantha Power on Hannah Arendt and Human RightsIn this episode from the Institute’s Vault, Samantha Power describes how Hannah Arendt influenced her thinking about politics and human rights. Power spoke during a two day symposium-- “Hannah Arendt Right Now”--which explored the philosopher’s impact on the 21st Century. The 2006 event was held on the hundredth anniversary of Arendt’s birth.Samantha Power was Barack Obama’s human rights adviser, and then served as the US Ambassador to the United Nations. She is the author of several books, including A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, which won the 2003 Pulitzer prize. She is...
2022-07-2748 min
New Books in World AffairsSamantha Power on Hannah Arendt and Human RightsIn this episode from the Institute’s Vault, Samantha Power describes how Hannah Arendt influenced her thinking about politics and human rights. Power spoke during a two day symposium-- “Hannah Arendt Right Now”--which explored the philosopher’s impact on the 21st Century. The 2006 event was held on the hundredth anniversary of Arendt’s birth.Samantha Power was Barack Obama’s human rights adviser, and then served as the US Ambassador to the United Nations. She is the author of several books, including A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, which won the 2003 Pulitzer prize. She is...
2022-07-2748 min
New Books in Human RightsSamantha Power on Hannah Arendt and Human RightsIn this episode from the Institute’s Vault, Samantha Power describes how Hannah Arendt influenced her thinking about politics and human rights. Power spoke during a two day symposium-- “Hannah Arendt Right Now”--which explored the philosopher’s impact on the 21st Century. The 2006 event was held on the hundredth anniversary of Arendt’s birth.Samantha Power was Barack Obama’s human rights adviser, and then served as the US Ambassador to the United Nations. She is the author of several books, including A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, which won the 2003 Pulitzer prize. She is...
2022-07-2748 min
Pod Bless CanadaTalkin’ in the Free World Ep. 9 – Azar Nafisi on Freedom vs. Totalitarian InstinctsAzar Nafisi, who is the critically acclaimed author of Reading Lolita in Tehran, a New York Times bestseller that is published in thirty-two languages. Nafisi reflects on the effect of education, ideology, and the corporate mentality on the preservation of democracy, focusing particularly on political divides in the US. Mariam and Azar dive into the philosophical underpinnings of freedom, democracy preservation in the US, and the fight for democracy in Iran.
Nafisi is also known for her other works including, Things I’ve Been Silent About, Republic of Imagination, That Other World: Nabokov and the Puzzle of Exile, and most re...
2022-07-2144 min
Talkin' in the Free WorldAzar Nafisi on Freedom vs. Totalitarian InstinctsAzar Nafisi, who is the critically acclaimed author of Reading Lolita in Tehran, a New York Times bestseller that is published in thirty-two languages. Nafisi reflects on the effect of education, ideology, and the corporate mentality on the preservation of democracy, focusing particularly on political divides in the US. Mariam and Azar dive into the philosophical underpinnings of freedom, democracy preservation in the US, and the fight for democracy in Iran. Nafisi is also known for her other works including, Things I’ve Been Silent About, Republic of Imagination, That Other World: Nabokov and the Puzzle of Exile, and mo...
2022-07-2044 min
The VaultAzar Nafisi and Ladan Boroumand on Arendt and IranIn this episode from the Institute’s Vault, we have an excerpt from a two day symposium--“Hannah Arendt Right Now”--which explored the philosopher’s impact on the 21st Century. The 2006 event was held on the hundredth anniversary of Arendt’s birth. In this session, Azar Nafisi and Ladan Boroumand talk about how Arendt’s work on totalitarianism helped them understand the Islamic Revolution in Iran, where both of them were born. Azar Nafisi - is best known for her 2003 book Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books. Ladan Boroumand is an historian and human rights advocate. She is the au...
2022-06-2051 min
New Books in Iranian StudiesAzar Nafisi and Ladan Boroumand on Arendt and IranIn this episode from the Institute’s Vault, we have an excerpt from a two day symposium--“Hannah Arendt Right Now”--which explored the philosopher’s impact on the 21st Century. The 2006 event was held on the hundredth anniversary of Arendt’s birth. In this session, Azar Nafisi and Ladan Boroumand talk about how Arendt’s work on totalitarianism helped them understand the Islamic Revolution in Iran, where both of them were born. Azar Nafisi - is best known for her 2003 book Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books. Ladan Boroumand is an historian and human rights advocate. She is the au...
2022-06-2051 min
The Book CaseAzar Nafisi Reads DangerouslyAzar Nafisi offers you - a reader - a challenge. It is the title of her latest book - “Read Dangerously”. Azar comes with a unique perspective. She was teaching in Iran when the clerics took over, banned books, and eliminated many of the freedoms that Americans often take for granted. She caused something of a sensation when she wrote “Reading Lolita in Tehran” - contending that reading fiction can be a liberating and even subversive act. Now she teaches in the United States and worries that Americans aren’t reading enough - specifically aren’t reading works that take them ou...
2022-06-0940 minMemoir NationReading Dangerously, featuring Azar NafisiThis week’s episode inspires and challenges and encourages all of us to embrace the magic of subversive reading. This conversation with Azar Nafisi, the best-selling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran, about her new book, Read Dangerously, is a reminder of what’s at stake for us right now in the US, why we need to engage and not check out, or worse, employ the same tactics as extremists in the fight for democracy. Tune in for an episode that’s political and urgent and necessary—and if you’re not reading dangerously, make the next book on your reading li...
2022-05-3038 minMemoir NationReading Dangerously, featuring Azar NafisiThis week’s episode inspires and challenges and encourages all of us to embrace the magic of subversive reading. This conversation with Azar Nafisi, the best-selling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran, about her new book, Read Dangerously, is a reminder of what’s at stake for us right now in the US, why we need to engage and not check out, or worse, employ the same tactics as extremists in the fight for democracy. Tune in for an episode that’s political and urgent and necessary—and if you’re not reading dangerously, make the next book on your reading...
2022-05-3038 minMemoir NationReading Dangerously, featuring Azar NafisiThis week’s episode inspires and challenges and encourages all of us to embrace the magic of subversive reading. This conversation with Azar Nafisi, the best-selling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran, about her new book, Read Dangerously, is a reminder of what’s at stake for us right now in the US, why we need to engage and not check out, or worse, employ the same tactics as extremists in the fight for democracy. Tune in for an episode that’s political and urgent and necessary—and if you’re not reading dangerously, make the next book on your reading...
2022-05-3039 min
City Arts & LecturesAzar NafisiThis week, our guest is author and academic Azar Nafisi. Her books include Reading Lolita in Tehran and Things I’ve Been Silent About. Nafisi was born in Iran, and first came to the United States to study in the 1970s. After earning her Ph.D., she returned to her home country to teach at the University of Tehran, where in 1981, she was expelled for refusing to wear the mandatory Islamic veil. Nafisi went back to teaching six years later, with a series of lectures that examined the role of Western literature and culture in Iran after the 1979 revolution. She...
2022-04-101h 04
The Colin McEnroe Show‘Literature as resistance.’ Azar Nafisi on the subversive power of reading in troubled timesAzar Nafisi is the author of Reading Lolita in Tehran, which spent 117 weeks on the New York Times Best Sellers list. Her new book, Read Dangerously, argues that reading literature, reading challenging, dangerousliterature is foundational and fundamental to continued democracy. Imagination, itself, she says, is a threat to autocracy and totalitarianism. Imagination is inherently, by definition, “free and wayward.” “It should be clear by now that when I talk about books,” Nafisi writes, “I am not talking about literature of resistance but literature as resistance.” Azar Nafisi joins us for the hour. G...
2022-04-0750 min
Thoughts from a Page PodcastAzar Nafisi - READ DANGEROUSLYAzar and I discuss Read Dangerously, how she selected the authors to include in this book, the reemergence of book banning, coming up with the format she used for the book, how curiosity leads to empathy, the importance of fiction in our lives, and much more.Azar's recommended reads are:
The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak
Maus by Art Spiegelman
Nicky & Vera by Peter Sis
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Support the podcast by becoming a Page Turner on Patreon. Other ways to support the podcast can...
2022-03-2732 min
Vulgar GeniusesAzar NafisiAfter captivating readers with her debut memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi returns with her fifth book, Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times. Nafisi implores the reader to look to the power of literature as America wrestles with censorship in the aftermath of the Trump presidency. In our conversation with Azar Nafisi, she makes her case for us to be diligent in our pursuit of defending our freedom to read books that challenge us, encourage our growth, and call us to play in the limitless waters of imagination.
2022-03-231h 00Access Utah'Read Dangerously' with Azar Nafisi on Access UtahToday our guest is writer Azar Nafisi. We’ll talk about her new book "Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times."
2022-03-2152 min
Behind the BookshelvesRead DangerouslyWe are talking about the art of reading dangerously with guest Iranian American author Azar Nafisi, who was written a book called Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times. In 2003, Azar’s memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran became a worldwide bestseller as she shared her experiences of living, working and reading in Iran under its repressive regime. Read Dangerously is composed of letters to Azar’s father. Azar addresses immigration, Donald Trump, The Handmaid's Tale, George Floyd and James Baldwin, and Pandemic existence, while also contemplating her former life in Iran.
2022-03-1126 min
Unlock This Unforgettable Full Audiobook — Perfect Between Meetings.Read Dangerously by Azar NafisiPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/223011to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Read Dangerously
Author: Azar Nafisi
Narrator: Azar Nafisi
Format: mp3
Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
Release date: 03-08-22
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 26 ratings
Genres: Censorship
Publisher's Summary:
What is the role of literature in an era when one political party wages continual war on writers and the press? What is the connection between political strife in our daily lives, and the way we meet our enemies on the page in fiction? How can literature, through its free exchange, affect politics? In this galvanizing guide to literature as resistance, Nafisi...
2022-03-088h 28
Bookin’174--Bookin’ w/ Azar NafisiThis week, host Jason Jefferies is joined by award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Azar Nafisi, who discusses her new book Read Dangerously, which is published by our friends at Dey St. Topics of conversation include how America is like the Islamic Republic, the harassment of poets and writers in Iran, whether we are living in a post-Trump era, Maus and banned books, Salman Rushdie and The Satanic Verses, Fahrenheit 451, Plato's Republic, To the End of the Land by David Grossman, and much more. Copies of Read Dangerously can be purchased here with FREE SHIPPING.
2022-03-0736 min
The Avid Reader ShowAzar Nafisi - Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled TimesThe New York Times bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran returns with a guide to the power of literature in turbulent times, arming readers with a resistance reading list, ranging from James Baldwin to Zora Neale Hurston to Margaret Atwood.What is the role of literature in an era when one political party wages continual war on writers and the press? What is the connection between political strife in our daily lives, and the way we meet our enemies on the page in fiction? How can literature, through its free exchange, affect politics?
2022-02-2233 min
The StacksDay 4 -- Banned Books in The Stacks with Timya Wright and Azar NafisiIn light of the recent wave of book bannings taking place across The United of States, The Stacks is spending all week talking with people who are impacted by the bannings, ranging from students to educators, authors, and more, to help us think about what is at stake and what we can do.We start today's episode with Mississippi high school student Timya Wright. Timya shares how she feels about adults telling young people what books they can have access to and the kinds of books she wishes were taught in school. Then we're...
2022-02-1045 min
Tell Them, I AmAzarAs an English Literature professor during the Iranian Revolution, Azar Nafisi forms a close friendship with a student. Years later, she receives some painful news that puts this friendship into a whole new context.
2021-04-2316 min
Reading and WritingHow to Read, and Why: Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in TehranHow should we read books? Why should we read them at all? To help us answer these questions, Claire and I turn to Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran, and talk about the freedom to read, reading for pleasure, escapism, why we get joy from reading about horrible things, the relationship between reading and moral instruction, the importance of talking and writing about what you read, and much more.
2021-01-0145 min
La Deriva FeministaAzar Nafisi: "Leer Lolita en Teherán".El cuarto capítulo de nuestro podcast tuvo por protagonista la novela autobiográfica de Azar Nafisi, docente universitaria, experta en literatura inglesa, quien relata en una estructura muy interesante, basada en otros cuatro libros o autores, su experiencia como mujer viviendo en la República Islámica de Irán, y cómo el club de lectura creado con sus estudiantes le permitió ir haciendo interesantes analogías de sus propias vivencias con los protagonistas y autores de diversas novelas. ¿Es comparable el abuso de dicho régimen con la relación entre Humbert y Lolita de Nabokov? ¿Leer el Gran Gats...
2020-10-051h 06
The Archive ProjectAzar Nafisi (Rebroadcast)This episode of The Archive Project features Azar Nafisi, author of the acclaimed Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books. In her lecture, Nafisi discusses Iranian literature and how it serves as a source of identity. She examines the fundamentalist Muslim identity in comparison to the national identity, concluding that people must focus on the literature of a nation in order to truly understand a culture. She also reflects on her life in England and her personal need to preserve Iran in her memory, and how that drive ultimately lead her to fall in love with fiction.
2020-08-2653 min
Journey of an Aesthete Podcasthttps://www.jouneyofanaesthetepodcast.com/Democracy and Empathy: A Conversation with Azar Nafisi on the Importance of Literature“ I came across the work of Dr. Azar Nafisi at exactly the same time I was undergoing a spiritual transformation regarding the value of the arts and letters. This was the time of the years 2001 and a few years after.
At that time I gave no thought at all to the internet (though perhaps I should have!) and podcasts were not yet even an idea (as far as I know) on anybody's mind. But I was giving a lot of thought to the arts in its many forms and books as specific medium were a big part of...
2020-08-211h 03
Habitación 101Leer Lolita en TeheránNuestro viaje llega a Irán, la antigua Persia. Un país maravilloso por el que siento auténtica debilidad y, si habéis escuchado Otoño en Persia, entenderéis por qué.De la mano de la profesora de literatura Azar Nafisi y de su libro «Leer Lolita en Teherán» conoceremos la convulsa historia de este país, pero también aprenderemos sobre literatura clásica norteamericana. ¿Una combinación imposible? Ya veréis que no.Para cualquier duda o comentario, las formas de contactar conmigo son a través de Twitter (@greenpeeptoes) o en el canal de Te...
2020-07-1006 min
Your Own WordsEpisode 01 - Reading Lolita in Tehran, by Azar NafisiOur first episode explores Becky’s book choice, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Iranian writer Azar Nafisi. Podcast theme: Natasha Pasternak See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2019-07-0700 min
SAL/on airAzar NafisiIn 2003, Azar Nafisi electrified readers worldwide with "Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books," which went on to become a long-running #1 New York Times bestseller. A modest professor of English literature, Nafisi taught at the University of Tehran as the Islamic Revolution raged around her, until she was fired in 1981 for her refusal to wear the mandatory veil. Before leaving the country in 1995, Nafisi spent two years holding secret classes on forbidden Western literature in her home.
"Reading Lolita in Tehran" recounts seven young women students passionately relating Nabokov’s works, as well as novels like "Madame Bovary" and "Prid...
2019-04-231h 13
Libro della Settimana#18 | La Repubblica dell'Immaginazione - Azar Nafisi«Leggere è un atto rivoluzionario». La Repubblica dell'Immaginazione di Azar Nafisi (Adelphi Edizioni) è il Libro della settimana scelto da Maura Gancitano. Trovi i video di Tlon su Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/associazionetlon/
2018-09-2502 min
Discover This Vivid Full Audiobook And Feel The Difference.Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar NafisiPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/256470to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Author: Azar Nafisi
Narrator: Azar Nafisi
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 17 hours 36 minutes
Release date: March 22, 2016
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 24
Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 6
Genres: Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, fundamentalists seized hold of the universities, and a...
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Title: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Author: Azar Nafisi
Narrator: Azar Nafisi
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 17 hours 36 minutes
Release date: March 22, 2016
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 24
Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 6
Genres: Social Science
Publisher's Summary:
Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, fundamentalists seized hold of the universities, and...
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Title: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Author: Azar Nafisi
Narrator: Azar Nafisi
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 17 hours 36 minutes
Release date: March 22, 2016
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 24
Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 6
Genres: Women
Publisher's Summary:
Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, fundamentalists seized hold of the universities, and a...
2016-03-225h 36
Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, WomenReading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar NafisiPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/256470 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books Author: Azar Nafisi Narrator: Azar Nafisi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 36 minutes Release date: March 22, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 24 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 6 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, fundamentalists seized hold of the universities, and...
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Title: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Author: Azar Nafisi
Narrator: Azar Nafisi
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 17 hours 36 minutes
Release date: March 22, 2016
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 24
Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 6
Genres: Social Science
Publisher's Summary:
Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, fundamentalists seized hold of the universities, and...
2016-03-225h 36
Audiobooks in Biography & MemoirReading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar NafisiPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/256470 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books Author: Azar Nafisi Narrator: Azar Nafisi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 36 minutes Release date: March 22, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 24 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 6 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, fundamentalists seized hold of the universities, and...
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Title: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Author: Azar Nafisi
Narrator: Azar Nafisi
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 17 hours 36 minutes
Release date: March 22, 2016
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 24
Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 6
Genres: Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, fundamentalists seized hold of the universities, and a...
2016-03-225h 36
Don’t Miss Into A Eye-Opening Full Audiobook Right Now.The Republic of Imagination by Azar NafisiPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/252103to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Republic of Imagination
Author: Azar Nafisi
Narrator: Mozhan Marno
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 9 minutes
Release date: January 28, 2016
Genres: History & Culture
Publisher's Summary:
From the author of the bestselling memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran comes a powerful and passionate case for the vital role of fiction today. Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her million-copy bestseller, Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the backdrop of morality squads and executions, she taught The Great Gatsby and other classics to her eager students...
2016-01-2810h 09Indulge In This Soul-Stirring Full Audiobook And Feel The Difference.The Republic of Imagination by Azar NafisiPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/252103to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Republic of Imagination
Author: Azar Nafisi
Narrator: Mozhan Marno
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 9 minutes
Release date: January 28, 2016
Genres: Military
Publisher's Summary:
From the author of the bestselling memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran comes a powerful and passionate case for the vital role of fiction today. Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her million-copy bestseller, Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the backdrop of morality squads and executions, she taught The Great Gatsby and other classics to her eager students in...
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Title: The Republic of Imagination
Author: Azar Nafisi
Narrator: Mozhan Marno
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 9 minutes
Release date: January 28, 2016
Genres: Law & Politics
Publisher's Summary:
From the author of the bestselling memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran comes a powerful and passionate case for the vital role of fiction today. Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her million-copy bestseller, Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the backdrop of morality squads and executions, she taught The Great Gatsby and other classics to her eager students...
2016-01-2810h 09
Best Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Law & PoliticsThe Republic of Imagination by Azar NafisiPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/252103 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Republic of Imagination Author: Azar Nafisi Narrator: Mozhan Marno Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 9 minutes Release date: January 28, 2016 Genres: Law & Politics Publisher's Summary: From the author of the bestselling memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran comes a powerful and passionate case for the vital role of fiction today. Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her million-copy bestseller, Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the backdrop of morality squads and executions, she taught The Great Gatsby and other classics to her eager...
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Title: The Republic of Imagination
Author: Azar Nafisi
Narrator: Mozhan Marno
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 9 minutes
Release date: January 28, 2016
Genres: Law & Politics
Publisher's Summary:
From the author of the bestselling memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran comes a powerful and passionate case for the vital role of fiction today. Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her million-copy bestseller, Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the backdrop of morality squads and executions, she taught The Great Gatsby and other classics to her eager students...
2016-01-2810h 09
Get New Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Republic of Imagination by Azar NafisiPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/252103 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Republic of Imagination Author: Azar Nafisi Narrator: Mozhan Marno Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 9 minutes Release date: January 28, 2016 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: From the author of the bestselling memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran comes a powerful and passionate case for the vital role of fiction today. Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her million-copy bestseller, Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the backdrop of morality squads and executions, she taught The Great Gatsby and other classics to her eager...
2016-01-2805 minGet New Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, History & CultureThe Republic of Imagination by Azar NafisiPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/252103to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Republic of Imagination
Author: Azar Nafisi
Narrator: Mozhan Marno
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 9 minutes
Release date: January 28, 2016
Genres: History & Culture
Publisher's Summary:
From the author of the bestselling memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran comes a powerful and passionate case for the vital role of fiction today. Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her million-copy bestseller, Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the backdrop of morality squads and executions, she taught The Great Gatsby and other classics to her eager students...
2016-01-2810h 09
Listen to Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, MilitaryThe Republic of Imagination by Azar NafisiPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/252103 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Republic of Imagination Author: Azar Nafisi Narrator: Mozhan Marno Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 9 minutes Release date: January 28, 2016 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: From the author of the bestselling memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran comes a powerful and passionate case for the vital role of fiction today. Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her million-copy bestseller, Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the backdrop of morality squads and executions, she taught The Great Gatsby and other classics to her eager students...
2016-01-2805 minListen to the Best Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, MilitaryThe Republic of Imagination by Azar NafisiPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/252103to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Republic of Imagination
Author: Azar Nafisi
Narrator: Mozhan Marno
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 9 minutes
Release date: January 28, 2016
Genres: Military
Publisher's Summary:
From the author of the bestselling memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran comes a powerful and passionate case for the vital role of fiction today. Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her million-copy bestseller, Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the backdrop of morality squads and executions, she taught The Great Gatsby and other classics to her eager students in...
2016-01-2810h 09The Archive ProjectAzar NafisiThis episode of The Archive Project features Azar Nafisi, author of the acclaimed Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books. In her lecture, Nafisi discusses Iranian literature and how it serves as a source of identity. She examines the fundamentalist Muslim identity in comparison to the national identity, concluding that people must focus on the literature of a nation in order to truly understand a culture. She also reflects on her life in England and her personal need to preserve Iran in her memory, and how that drive ultimately lead her to fall in love with fiction.
2015-12-1752 min
IranWireIran's Weekly Wire 25Azar Nafisi, the author of Reading Lolita in Tehran, is starting a new campaign about books and human rights. It’s called #BooksSave.
Right after the 1979 revolution in Iran, Nafisi saw how the new government targeted writers and thinkers.
Now, she sees a clear connection between the life of the imagination and the rights of individuals everywhere, not just in Iran.
She wants other people to see it, too, and to share their experiences online.
This week, Roland Elliott Brown speaks to her about the campaign.
2015-08-0719 min
Wavemaker Conversations: A Podcast for the Insanely CuriousAzar NafisiSchulder speaks with Azar Nafisi, Iranian-American author of the number one New York Times bestseller "Reading Lolita in Tehran" and "Republic of Imagination: America in 3 Books," in front of a live audience at this summer's Nantucket Book Festival. Nafisi insists that remaining in Iran after the Islamic Revolution and teaching the works of great western authors in ways the rulers of the Islamic Republic would consider subversive, was not an act of courage. Listen and judge for yourself.
2015-06-2351 minWavemaker ConversationsAzar NafisiSchulder speaks with Azar Nafisi, Iranian-American author of the number one New York Times bestseller "Reading Lolita in Tehran" and "Republic of Imagination: America in 3 Books," in front of a live audience at this summer's Nantucket Book Festival. Nafisi insists that remaining in Iran after the Islamic Revolution and teaching the works of great western authors in ways the rulers of the Islamic Republic would consider subversive, was not an act of courage. Listen and judge for yourself.
2015-06-2351 min
Library TalksAzar Nafisi on the Freedom to ReadThe bestselling author of “Reading Lolita in Tehran,” a portrayal of the Islamic Revolution in Iran and its effects on one university professor and her students, Azar Nafisi comes to NYPL to celebrate the success of her most recent book, “The Republic of Imagination.” Nafisi joins NYPL’s Paul Holdengraber for a conversation on the importance of literature, freedom, and originality in today’s global society.
2015-04-071h 25
Talk CocktailLiterature vs. The FutureAlthough it doesn’t seem like it in today's world of images and 140 characters, words, stories and literature once moved people and nations and changed the world. In fact, even in our own nation, the act of reading was once even seen as subversive. Yet it fueled the quest for freedom, fired up our democracy, and launched a nation.
Today that same nation and its discontents, seems to eschew literature as a form of creative engagement, of social discourse and as an element of citizenship.
How we got here and what it might mean for the future is part...
2014-10-3123 min
The Avid Reader ShowAzar Nafisi author of The Republic of ImaginationTen years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her million-copy bestseller, Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the backdrop of morality squads and executions, she taught The Great Gatsby and other classics to her eager students in Iran. In this exhilarating followup, Nafisi has written the book her fans have been waiting for: an impassioned, beguiling, and utterly original tribute to the vital importance of fiction in a democratic society. What Reading Lolita in Tehran was for Iran, The Republic of Imagination is for America.The Avid Reader show is sponsored by Wellington...
2014-10-3044 min
Dive Into This Award-Winning Full Audiobook And Feel The Difference.The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books by Azar NafisiPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218422to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books
Author: Azar Nafisi
Narrator: Mozhan Marnò
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 11 minutes
Release date: October 21, 2014
Genres: Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
A New York Times bestseller The author of the beloved #1 New York Times bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran returns with the next chapter of her life in books—a passionate and deeply moving hymn to America Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her multimillion-copy bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the backdrop of morality squad...
2014-10-2110h 11Access Must-Have Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, MemoirsThe Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books by Azar NafisiPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218422to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books
Author: Azar Nafisi
Narrator: Mozhan Marnò
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 11 minutes
Release date: October 21, 2014
Genres: Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
A New York Times bestseller The author of the beloved #1 New York Times bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran returns with the next chapter of her life in books—a passionate and deeply moving hymn to America Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her multimillion-copy bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the backdrop of morality squad...
2014-10-2110h 11
Access Must-Have Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, MemoirsThe Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books by Azar NafisiPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/218422 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books Author: Azar Nafisi Narrator: Mozhan Marnò Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 11 minutes Release date: October 21, 2014 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A New York Times bestseller The author of the beloved #1 New York Times bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran returns with the next chapter of her life in books—a passionate and deeply moving hymn to America Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her multimillion-copy bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the backdrop of moral...
2014-10-2105 min
Black Mountain Institute PodcastBlack Mountain Institute (BMI) Podcast #124: Blood, Sweat and Tears: Life on the Front Lines of the Human Rights Struggle in Russia, Nigeria, and Iran - 9/11/14In this episode, writers and political dissidents Wole Soyinka and Azar Nafisi discuss their lives and work at an event titled "Blood, Sweat & Tears: Life on the Front Lines of the Human Rights Struggle in Russia, Nigeria, and Iran." The event was held September 11, 2014 in the UNLV Student Union Theatre in Las Vegas, NV and was moderated by UNLV history professor Michelle Tusan.<div class="feedflare">
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2014-09-1400 min
A Good ReadEdwina Currie and Nicholas Le PrevostHarriett Gilbert and her guest - former MP, Edwina Currie and actor, Nicholas Le Provost - discuss their favourite books by Beryl Bainbridge, Dorothy Whipple and Azar Nafisi. 'An Awfully Big Adventure’ by Beryl Bainbridge.
Publisher: Abacus‘The Priory’ by Dorothy Whipple.
Publisher: Persephone Books‘Lolita in Tehran’ by Azar Nafisi.
Publisher: Harper PerennialFirst broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2014.
2014-07-0127 min
Art Works PodcastAzar NafisiAuthor of two memoirs about her life in Iran, Reading Lolita in Tehran and Things I've Been Silent About, Azar Nafisi talks about her books, her life in Iran, her parents, the Iranian Revolution, and, of course, the power of literature.
2011-01-2725 min
Soundings from The New York ReviewAnita Desai on Azar NafisiNovelist Anita Desai speaks with Eve Bowen about Things I've Been Silent About, Iranian expatriate Azar Nafisi's new memoir.
2009-03-0914 min
BookwormAzar NafisiThings I've Been Silent About: Memories (Random House)Azar Nafisi is one of the most powerful advocates literature has. After writing Reading Lolita in Tehran,
her memoir about reading forbidden books in a repressive culture, she
has taken on a new source of repression—the family.
2009-02-0529 minThe Seattle Public LibraryAzar Nafisi: 'Things I've Been Silent About: Memories'Azar Nafisi discussed "Things I've Been Silent About: Memories" on Jan. 16, 2009 at the Central Library.
2009-01-2900 min
Embrace This Ground-Breaking Full Audiobook — Perfect Before Bedtime.Things I've Been Silent About by Azar NafisiPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54302to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Things I've Been Silent About
Author: Azar Nafisi
Narrator: Naila Azad
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 13 hours 28 minutes
Release date: December 30, 2008
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 6
Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 3
Genres: Women
Publisher's Summary:
I started making a list in my diary entitled “Things I Have Been Silent About.” Under it I wrote: “Falling in Love in Tehran. Going to Parties in Tehran. Watching the Marx Brothers in Tehran. Reading Lolita in Tehran.” I wrote about repressive laws and executions, about public and political abominations. Eventually I drifted into wri...
2008-12-301h 28Press Play On Your Ears To A Award-Winning Full Audiobook.Things I've Been Silent About by Azar NafisiPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54302to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Things I've Been Silent About
Author: Azar Nafisi
Narrator: Naila Azad
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 13 hours 28 minutes
Release date: December 30, 2008
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 6
Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 3
Genres: Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
I started making a list in my diary entitled “Things I Have Been Silent About.” Under it I wrote: “Falling in Love in Tehran. Going to Parties in Tehran. Watching the Marx Brothers in Tehran. Reading Lolita in Tehran.” I wrote about repressive laws and executions, about public and political abominations. Eventually I drifted into wri...
2008-12-301h 28Dive Into Into A High-Impact Full Audiobook Right Now.Things I've Been Silent About by Azar NafisiPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54302to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Things I've Been Silent About
Author: Azar Nafisi
Narrator: Naila Azad
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 13 hours 28 minutes
Release date: December 30, 2008
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 6
Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 3
Genres: Social Science
Publisher's Summary:
I started making a list in my diary entitled “Things I Have Been Silent About.” Under it I wrote: “Falling in Love in Tehran. Going to Parties in Tehran. Watching the Marx Brothers in Tehran. Reading Lolita in Tehran.” I wrote about repressive laws and executions, about public and political abominations. Eventually I drifted...
2008-12-301h 28
Dive Into A Full Audiobook That Is Simply Eye-Opening.Things I've Been Silent About by Azar NafisiPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/89775to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Things I've Been Silent About
Author: Azar Nafisi
Narrator: Azar Nafisi
Format: mp3
Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
Release date: 12-30-08
Ratings: 4 out of 5 stars, 13 ratings
Genres: Educators
Publisher's Summary:
I started making a list in my diary entitled “Things I Have Been Silent About”. Under it I wrote: “Falling in Love in Tehran. Going to Parties in Tehran. Watching the Marx Brothers in Tehran. Reading Lolita in Tehran". I wrote about repressive laws and executions, about public and political abominations. Eventually I drifted into writing about private betrayals, implic...
2008-12-306h 29Enjoy Amazing Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Social ScienceThings I've Been Silent About by Azar NafisiPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54302to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Things I've Been Silent About
Author: Azar Nafisi
Narrator: Naila Azad
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 13 hours 28 minutes
Release date: December 30, 2008
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 6
Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 3
Genres: Social Science
Publisher's Summary:
I started making a list in my diary entitled “Things I Have Been Silent About.” Under it I wrote: “Falling in Love in Tehran. Going to Parties in Tehran. Watching the Marx Brothers in Tehran. Reading Lolita in Tehran.” I wrote about repressive laws and executions, about public and political abominations. Eventually I drifted...
2008-12-301h 28Download New Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, MemoirsThings I've Been Silent About by Azar NafisiPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/54302to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Things I've Been Silent About
Author: Azar Nafisi
Narrator: Naila Azad
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 13 hours 28 minutes
Release date: December 30, 2008
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 6
Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 3
Genres: Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
I started making a list in my diary entitled “Things I Have Been Silent About.” Under it I wrote: “Falling in Love in Tehran. Going to Parties in Tehran. Watching the Marx Brothers in Tehran. Reading Lolita in Tehran.” I wrote about repressive laws and executions, about public and political abominations. Eventually I drifted into wri...
2008-12-301h 28