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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, Azar Nafisi, New York: Random House, 2004, ISBN 0-8129-7106-x, 343 pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Afshin Matin-asgari
Afshin Matin-asgari*
Affiliation:
California State University, Los Angeles
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Iranian Studies , Volume 39 , Issue 3 , September 2006 , pp. 417 - 421
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Copyright © The International Society for Iranian Studies 2006

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References

1 See, for example, Ramazani's, Nesta review in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 24 no. 1 (2004)CrossRefGoogle Scholar and Negar Mottahedh's review in Middle East Report and Information Project (September 2004). For a review that raises points similar to mine, see Bahramitash, Roksana, “The War on Terror, Feminist Orientalism and Orientalist Feminism: Case Studies of Two North American Bestsellers,” Critique: Critical Middle Eastern Studies 14, no. 2 (Summer 2005): 223–237Google Scholar.

2 On Ahmad Nafisi's case, see Bill, James A., The Politics of Iran: Groups, Classes and Modernization (Columbus: 1972), 125–26Google Scholar and Musavi-Ebadi, Ali-Asghar, Shahrdaran-e Tehran (Qum: 1999), 89–96Google Scholar.