Booknotes interview with Nafisi on Reading Lolita, June 8, 2003.
Azar Nafisi mentions it and quotes the "falsely" definition in Reading Lolita in Tehran.
Nafisi's 2003 book Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books has been translated into 32 languages.
And she is planning to star in a film version of the best-selling book "Reading Lolita in Tehran," which she expects to start shooting by the end of 2005.
Lolita and Beyond Interview with Hamid Dabashi on the subject of Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran.
In the acknowledgements she makes in Reading Lolita in Tehran, Nafisi writes of Princeton University historian Bernard Lewis as "one who opened the door".
He has criticized Iranian-American writer Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran (2003) for misrepresentating Iranian society and Islam.
Ms. Nafisi, a Nabokov scholar and author of the best-selling "Reading Lolita in Tehran," was expelled from the University of Tehran for refusing the veil.
Azar Nafisi - Iranian-American academic and author of Reading Lolita in Tehran and "Things I've Been Silent About"
Azar Nafisi, the author of "Reading Lolita in Tehran," quoted a former colleague in Tehran who compared dealing with the Islamic Republic to playing chess with a monkey.