Azar Nafisi

December 3, 2010

"The Republic of the Imagination"

Tyranny and censorship.  The relationship between culture and human rights.  Azar Nafisi, the award-winning Iranian/American author of Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, explores the transformative powers of literature in a world of repression.  An internationally recognized advocate for Iran's intellectuals, youth and especially young women, she pormotes literacy and the reading of books with universal literary value.  Join her as she explains the power of literature to liberate minds and people.