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Women Write Iran: Nostalgia and Human Rights from the Diaspora. Nima Naghibi (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2016). Pp. 211 (paperback). ISBN 978-0816683840

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Women Write Iran: Nostalgia and Human Rights from the Diaspora. Nima Naghibi (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2016). Pp. 211 (paperback). ISBN 978-0816683840

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2022

Leila Moayeri Pazargadi
Leila Moayeri Pazargadi*
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Nevada State College, Henderson, NV, USA ([email protected])
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Iranian Studies , Volume 55 , Issue 4 , October 2022 , pp. 1091 - 1093
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1 Though Naghibi does not explicitly mention Dabashi's assessment of Nafisi here, she alludes to it when she mentions how scholars of Iranian studies have critiqued texts (like Nafisi's) that offer a “a Western imperial gaze, by offering readers a glimpse in the presumably” forbidden “world beneath the veil.” (Naghibi 131; c.f. Nafisi, Azar. 2003. Reading Lolita in Tehran. New York: Random HouseGoogle Scholar; Dabashi, Hamid. 2006. “Native Informers and the Making of the American Empire.” Al-Ahram Weekly, no. 797, June 1. https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/10542/native-informers-and-the-making-of-the-americanGoogle Scholar).