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Did you know that over 900 people work for the Columbus Metropolitan Library? Those 900 staffers read thousands of books each year! Staff Favorites is the place where staff share books they love! Feature Reviews Reading Lolita in Tehran By Azar Nafisi, 2003. 347 pages. This thoughtful memoir traces Nafisi's teaching experience during Iran's Islamic Revolution. For two years she secretly held a reading group at her house for seven for her former female students. In the past, she and her students had been attacked for not wearing the veil, for refusing to espouse a hard-line ideological stance and for studying decadent Western texts. Nafisi and her students forged a tight bond as they explored banned novels. Each Thursday morning the girls shed their veils and discussed Lolita and other great protanonists. Nafisi states the books were "essential to our lives...like Lolita we tried to escape and to create our own little pockets of freedom." Nafisi left Iran in 1997 and now teaches at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Reviewed by: sylvia v., Main Library. 01/23/04 Be the first to comment on Reading Lolita in Tehran Reserve Reading Lolita in Tehran

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