Azar Nafisi Biography
Azar Nafisi is a professor at Johns Hopkins
University. She won a fellowship from Oxford and taught English literature at
the University of Tehran, the Free Islamic University and Allameh Tabatabai
University in Iran. She was expelled from the University of Tehran for refusing
to wear the veil and left Iran for America in 1997. She has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and The New Republic and has appeared on countless radio and television programs.
Most famous for her memoirs, particularly Reading Lolita in Tehran, she is also the author of
Anti-Terra: A Critical Study of Vladimir Nabokov’s Novels and a children's book, BiBi and the Green Voice. She lives in
Washington, D.C.
This biography was last updated on 12/04/2010.
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