3 July 2015

The radical power of literature

Dr Azar Nafisi
Author and Visiting Professor, School of Advanced International Studies, John Hopkins University

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Iranian-American author and guest of the Centre Azar Nafisi discusses the importance of literature to society and her latest book The Republic of Imagination.

Dr Azar Nafisi
Author and Visiting Professor, School of Advanced International Studies, John Hopkins University
Azar Nafisi visited the US Studies Centre in July 2015. Nafisi is the author of the bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Random House Publishing Group, 2008), which spent over 117 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list and won many diverse literary awards. She is a Visiting Professor and Director of the Dialogue Project at the Foreign Policy Institute of John Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies.

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