Azar Nafisi

Bio: Azar Nafisi is the author of the multi-award-winning New York Times bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran, as well as Things I’ve Been Silent About, and The Republic of Imagination. Formerly a Fellow at Johns Hopkins University’s Foreign Policy Institute, she has taught at Oxford and several universities in Tehran, and she is currently Centennial Fellow at Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service. Her book Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times is forthcoming from Dey Street Books in March 2022.

Events: Fifth Year Launch: The Cross-Cultural Role of International Literature, Azar Nafisi and Joanne Leedom-Ackerman with Matthew Davis,Azar Nafisi: The Republic of Imagination