Reading Lolita In Tehran

Reading Lolita In Tehran is a towering achievement. There is absolutely no doubt about that, nor about the brilliance of the amazingly gifted woman who wrote it. It tells the story of Dr. Nafisi -- an educator in Iran -- who has an unmatched passion for literature and reading and who chooses to teach a select group of her female students a sampling of world's greatest literature;ones that are currently banned in Iran (like works of Nabokov, James, Austen, etc.) If you read the books discussed, you are sure to appreciate the discussions and analyses that much more. But even if you haven't, it will make you want to.

… my readings, I continued to attend movies. And the movies -- write in the heart of the year end awards and the Oscar season -- continue to thrill. Memoirs of a Geisha is probably one of the prettiest movies you will ever see. It is based on the blockbuster book, and is getting, if not ringing endorsements, but good reviews. A criticism has been levied against it by some folks -- not necessarily the critics -- that the lead actresses should have been Japanese and not the Chinese/Hongkong superstars. But my problem with that criticism is an obvious one. Why don't the same folks complain that the book was written by an American and not by a Japanese?!! The movie tells the story of how a very young girl is sold to a geisha house for a better life. As she becomes an adult, she herself becomes a geisha and experiences life among the priviledged -- a far cry from her poor beginnings in a fishing village. Then World War 2 changes everything for Japan and the Geisha World.

Vacancy: Assistant Professor of Zoroastrianism

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1: Neither West Nor East-1
2: A Compendious Arabic-Persian Dictionary-2
3: Kant and Zarathushtra-3
4: The Indians in Susa-4
5: Staging Nezami’s Seven Beauties-5
6: Landlord and Peasant in Persia-6
7: The TATA Group-7
8: سفر ماه گل-8
9: Ayatollahs’ Iran: a Nationalistic Theocracy as Freemasonic Machination-9
10: Jahrom: Down History Lane-10
11: Iranian elements in the ancient culture of the Eastern Slavs-11
12: Webmaster-13
13: نامۀ دانشگاه شیراز به امیر مهدی بدیع - شمارۀ ۱۴۳۸۹ مورخ ۲۸/۱۱/۱۳۴۷-14
14: Les tétradrachmes d'Orodès II et de Phraate IV-15
15: خاطرات اردشیر خاضع-16
16: Islam and Mazdaeism-17
17: The Culture and Social Institutions of Ancient Iran-18
18: My Bombay Kitchen-19
19: من دختر هراتم-20
20: Habib Qaderi-21
21: The two eyes of the Earth-22
22: Hegel et les origines de la pensée contemporaine-24
23: Iranica Antiqua-25
24: Luristan Excavation Documents (VOL. III) -26
25: The Martin Luther King of Zoroastrianism-27
26: L’encerclement de l’Iran à la lumière de l’histoire du “Grand Moyen-Orient”-28
27: فرنگ و فرنگی‌مآبی-29
28: 1967 secret Senate hearings on CIA made public -30
29: چاپ دو کتاب فارسی در اسرائیل-31
30: Rostam and Sohrab by Hyperwerks-32
31: تولد و استقلال دانشگاه تهران فرخنده باد-33
32: Ces Barbares calomniés-35