Azar Nafisi

Birth : 1948-12-01, Tehran, Iran

History

Azar Nafisi is an Iranian-American writer and professor of English literature. Born in Tehran, Iran, she has resided in the United States since 1997 and became a U.S. citizen in 2008.

Movies

Reading Lolita in Tehran
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Novel
Set in post-revolution Iran as extremism took hold, Nafisi’s book tells the autobiographical story of a fearless teacher who secretly gathered seven of her female students to read forbidden Western classics.