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Azar Nafisi on the Republic of the Imagination and the role of women in Islam and Iran

May 2009

Speakers: Azar Nafisi

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Author Azar Nafisi talks to Lisa Dwan about how fiction has provided her with an alternative world in which she could control events and ignore cultural and social identities. Nafisi discusses her books Reading Lolita in Tehran (2003) and Things I've Been Silent About: Memories the inspiration behind it and the process of righting them. She looks at the role of the women, orientalism, political reductionism, Iranian history, and the Nafisi family background.

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