Reading Lolita in Tehran
a memoir in books
by Azar Nafisi · first published 2003
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Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Azar Nafisi, a bold and inspired teacher, secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. Some came from conservative and religious families, others were progressive and secular; some had spent time in jail. They were shy and uncomfortable at first, unaccustomed to being asked to speak their minds, but soon they removed their veils and began to speak more freely–their stories intertwining with the novels they were reading by Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, and
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…a hurry, with a lack of context, and so it lacks long-term perspective. In terms of books that have changed my perspective on some subject, here are some important ones I've read over the last year: Reading Lolita In Tehran, by Azar Nafisi https://www.amazon.com/Reading-Lolita-Tehran-Memoir-Books/dp... Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security, by Sarah Chayes https://www.amazon.com/Thieves-State-Corruption-Threatens-Se...…
on “Some Americans are breaking out of political echo chambers” ↗…a hurry, with a lack of context, and so it lacks long-term perspective. In terms of books that have changed my perspective on some subject, here are some important ones I've read over the last year: Reading Lolita In Tehran, by Azar Nafisi https://www.amazon.com/Reading-Lolita-Tehran-Memoir-Books/dp... Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security, by Sarah Chayes https://www.amazon.com/Thieves-State-Corruption-Threatens-Se...…
on “Avoid News, Part 2: What the Stock Market Taught Me about News” ↗…each that have been translated into English. I just want to gain a worldwide perspective. One I’ve been slowly chipping away at and had put down for a while but recently became very relevant again is Reading Lolita in Tehran: a Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi. Also recently finished the Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy by Cixin Liu, The Every by Dave Eggers (not really part of the goal, I just like his work, I‘d recommend…
on “Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment” ↗Thank you for those links. I have read some pieces about Iran, including the memoirs Reading Lolita in Tehran and Persepolis. From what I gather, when women leave an Islamic country and are free to wear western clothes in public, this is a big deal and the whole feel of the sun on my skin is a thing they comment…
on “Kitty Marion: an actress who became a suffragette who planted bombs” ↗