*Nafisi, Azar: - 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, The Republic of Imagination,and That Other World *. Formerly a Fellow at Johns Hopkins University's Foreign Policy Institute, she has tau...

*Nafisi, Azar: - 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, The Republic of Imagination,and That Other World *. Formerly a Fellow at Johns Hopkins University's Foreign Policy Institute, she has taught at Oxford and several universities in Tehran. She lives in Washington, D.C.