Azar Nafisi

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010

Azar Nafisi, former literature professor at Tehran University, discusses her secret literature class, and the impact Western writing had on her students and in her own life, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books.

Music: Shahmirza Moradi The Music of Lorestan, Iran

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