Podcast Episodes featuring Azar Nafisi

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Azar Nafisi

SAL/on air - April 22, 2019 22:41 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 23 ratings
In 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 he...

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Azar Nafisi on the Freedom to Read

Library Talks - April 07, 2015 17:29 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 307 ratings
The 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 Ho...

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1814: A 2014 Interview with Azar Nafisi

Rick Kleffel:Narrative Species–The Agony Column - November 16, 2014 20:00 ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
"I wanted to show how close reality and fiction are..."

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1803: A 2014 Phone Interview with Azar Nafisi

Rick Kleffel:Narrative Species–The Agony Column - October 22, 2014 19:00 ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
"..trying to create a reality which had not existed before..."

Books written by Azar Nafisi

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Azar Nafisi

1 Episode - 356 pages - ★★★★ - 103K ratings

Reading Lolita in Tehran
Azar Nafisi

1 Episode - 343 pages - ★★★★ - 313 ratings

My Uncle Napoleon
Iraj Pezeshkzad, Dick Davis, Azar Nafisi

509 pages - ★★★★ - 737 ratings

Reading Lolita In Tehran - A Memoir In Books
Azar Nafisi

347 pages - ★★★★ - 264 ratings