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Al-Nafisi is from the Al-Nafsiah family that originated from Mutayr tribe. [1] In 1951, Abdullah and his brother Ghazi moved to Egypt to study in Victoria College in Alexandria. [2] Initially, Abdullah went to study medicine in Manchester. In 1962, Abdullah read Why I Am Not a Christian by Bertrand Russell, which caused him to question his ...
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books is a book by Iranian author and professor Azar Nafisi. Published in 2003, it was on the New York Times bestseller list for over one hundred weeks and has been translated into 32 languages.
Nafisi (Persian: نفیسی) is an Iranian surname. Notable people with the surname include: Abdullah Al-Nafisi (born 1945), Kuwaiti academic and politician; Ahmad Nafisi (1919–2004), Iranian bureaucrat and mayor of Tehran (1961–1963) Amannisa Khan Nafisi, wife of Abdurashid Khan (1526-1560) Azar Nafisi (born 1948), Iranian-American writer ...
With “Reading Lolita in Tehran” — a moving adaptation of Iranian-American author and professor Azar Nafisi’s memoir — he adds an understated, yet generally …
The list is not comprehensive, but is continuously being expanded and includes Persian poets as well as poets who write in Persian from Iran, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Georgia, Dagestan, Turkey, Syria, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Lebanon, China, Pakistan, India and elsewhere.
Abdulla Majed Al Ali, executive director of the UAE national archive, columnist, formerly involved in a number of cultural initiatives in the UAE, including the Sheikh Zayed Book Award, the Kalima Translation Project, the Abu Dhabi Book Fair and Abu Dhabi libraries; Nujoom Alghanem, poet, script writer and a multi-award-winning Emirati filmmaker
In 2006, Dabashi sharply criticized Azar Nafisi for her book Reading Lolita in Tehran, stating that "By seeking to recycle a kaffeeklatsch version of English literature as the ideological foregrounding of American empire, Reading Lolita in Tehran is reminiscent of the most pestiferous colonial projects" and accusing her of being a "native ...
John Carlos Rowe, Professor of the Humanities at the University of Southern California, states that: "Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (2003) is an excellent example of how neo-liberal rhetoric is now being deployed by neo-conservatives and the importance they have placed on cultural issues."