Azar Nafisi (Persian: آذر نفیسی; born 1948)is an Iranian-American writer and professor of English literature. Born in Tehran, Iran, she has resided in the United States since 1997 and became a U.S. citizen in 2008.
Nafisi has held several academic leadership roles, including director of the Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) Dialogue Project and Cultural Conversations, a Georgetown Walsh School of Foreign Service, Centennial Fellow, and a fellow at Oxford University
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The Republic of Imagination; America in Three Books
In this book, a mixture of literary criticism and the author’s autobiography, through her passion for literature, Nafisi offers an assessment of her new home (the United States), after the author became an American citizen in 2008. Nafisi says: “Long before I made America my home, I lived inside its novels, poetry, music and films.” Since her immigration, she has been teaching literature at Johns Hopkins University in the United States.
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