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050	0		_aPE64.N34 _bA3 2003
100	1		_aNafisi, Azar.
245	1	0	_aReading Lolita in Tehran : _ba memoir in books / _cAzar Nafisi.
250			_aTrade pbk. ed.
260			_aNew York : _bRandom House, _cc2003.
300			_a356 p.
520			_aProf. Nafisi resigned from her job as professor of English Literature at a university in Tehran in 1995 due to repressive government policies. For the next 2 years, until she left Iran, she gathered 7 young women, former students, at her house every Thursday morning to read and discuss works of Western literature forbidden by the new regime. They used this forum to learn to speak freely, not only about literature, but also about the social, political, and cultural realities of living under strict Islamic rule.
600	1	0	_aNafisi, Azar.
650		0	_aAmerican literature _xStudy and teaching _zIran.
650		0	_aEnglish literature _xStudy and teaching _zIran.
650		0	_aEnglish teachers _zIran _vBiography.
650		0	_aGroup reading _zIran.
650		0	_aWomen _xBooks and reading _zIran.
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