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From: "Patrice Summers" <summers@dramadance.ucsb.edu>
> Friday, April 4, on "Fresh Air", with Terry Gross: Terry will intertiew
> Professor and writer Azar Nafisi. She taught English literature at the
> University of Tehran and 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 in 1997. She now is a professor
> at Johns Hopkins University.
>
> Her new memoir, "Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books", is about
> the book club she formed with seven of her former women students to read
> and discuss forbidden Western literature. They read Pride and Prejudice,
> Washington Square, Daisy Miller and Lolita.
>
> "Fresh Air" can be accessed online at wwww.kclu.org/, in Santa Barbara
> County at 103.2 FM, and in Ventura County at 88.3 FM.
>
> Patrice Summers
> Administrative/Financial Asst.
> Dramatic Art/Dance
> University of California, Santa Barbara
> 805/893-5508
From: "Patrice Summers" <summers@dramadance.ucsb.edu>
> Friday, April 4, on "Fresh Air", with Terry Gross: Terry will intertiew
> Professor and writer Azar Nafisi. She taught English literature at the
> University of Tehran and 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 in 1997. She now is a professor
> at Johns Hopkins University.
>
> Her new memoir, "Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books", is about
> the book club she formed with seven of her former women students to read
> and discuss forbidden Western literature. They read Pride and Prejudice,
> Washington Square, Daisy Miller and Lolita.
>
> "Fresh Air" can be accessed online at wwww.kclu.org/, in Santa Barbara
> County at 103.2 FM, and in Ventura County at 88.3 FM.
>
> Patrice Summers
> Administrative/Financial Asst.
> Dramatic Art/Dance
> University of California, Santa Barbara
> 805/893-5508