Azar Nafisi is the recipient of the 2015 Benjamin Franklin Creativity Laureate in the Humanities and Public Service. Courtesy of the Smithsonian Associates Born in Tehran as the daughter of the mayor, ...

Azar Nafisi says books might not save us from death, but they help us live. The acclaimed author of "Reading Lolita In Tehran" and "The Republic Of Imagination" has written a new work, and it consists ...

Azar Nafisi's 2003 bestseller about reading forbidden books under Iran's regime has become a war document as Tehran faces ...

In her new memoir, Things I've Been Silent About, Azar Nafisi explains that she wants to “tell the story of a family that unfolds against the backdrop of a turbulent era in Iran's political and ...

It’s hard to believe we live in a time when books are routinely banned in the U.S., removed from library shelves and sent someplace where they can’t influence impressionable young minds. Then again, ...

Things I've Been Silent About is the second memoir by the Iranian literary critic Azar Nafisi, author of the best-selling Reading Lolita in Tehran, and it does not begin auspiciously. Before we even ...

Readers entranced by Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran, her 2003 memoir about literature and intellectual freedom in Iran, will be equally fascinated by her new memoir, Things I've Been Silent ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Azar Nafisi is an Author with 16 videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1998 Forum as a Lecturer for Middle East Studies in the Nitze (Paul H.) School ...

Author Azar Nafisi has written a love letter to literature and reading in Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times. She does this in a series of letters to her late ...

The title of Azar Nafisi's second memoir, "Things I've Been Silent About," which follows "Reading Lolita in Tehran" (2003), her fierce paean to the liberating power of literature, raises expectations ...