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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
by Azar Nafisi
Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, fundamentalists seized hold of the universities, and a blind censor stifled artistic _expression, the girls in Azar Nafisi's living room risked removing their veils and immersed themselves in the worlds of Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, and Vladimir Nabokov. In this extraordinary memoir, their stories become intertwined with the ones they are reading. "Reading Lolita in Tehran is a remarkable exploration of resilience in the face of tyranny and a celebration of the liberating power of literature.

The Rug Merchant by Meg Mullins New York : Viking, 2006.

Against Gravity by Farnoosh Moshiri New York : Penguin Books, 2005.

Women in Islam Ed. Margaret Speaker Yuan Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2005.

Strange times, my dear : the PEN anthology of contemporary Iranian literature Ed. Nahid Mozaffari ; poetry editor, Ahmad Karimi Hakkak. New York : Arcade Pub. : Distributed by Time Warner Book Group, c2005.

Pomegranate soup : a novel by Marsha Mehran. New York : Random House, c2005.

Lipstick Jihad : a memoir of growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran by Azadeh Moaveni. New York : Public Affairs, c2005.

Persepolis 3 by Marjane Satrapi. Barcelona : Norma Editorial, c2004.

Persépolis 4 by Marjane Satrapi. Barcelona : Norma Editorial, c2004.

Journey from the land of no : a girlhood caught in revolutionary Iran by Roya Hakakian. New York : Crown Publishers, c2004.

Stories from Iran by Heshmat Moayyad

Children of Deh Koh, Young Life in an Iranian Village by Erika Friedl

New Food of Life: Ancient Persian and Modern Iranian Cooking and Ceremonies by Najmieh Khalili Batmanglij

Lonely Planet: Iran by Paul Greenway

Travels in Persia (1673 - 1677) by Sir John Chardin

"Persepolis 2 - The Story of a Return" by Marjane Strapi, pub: Pantheon Books, New York, 2004
ISBN: 0-375-42288-9

The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity: AD 395-600 - Averil Cameron
ISBN 0-415-01421-2

Muhammad - Margaret K. McElderry
ISBN 0-689-85264-9

The Ends of the Earth: From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia, a Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy by Robert D. Kaplan

Language, Status and Power in Iran (Advances is Semiotics Series) by William Beerman

Garden of the Brave in War: Recollections of Iran by Terrance O'Donnell

Nomads of Luristan: History, Material Culture and Pastoralism in Western Iran by Inge Demant Morgensen

Through Iran in Disguise by Sarah Hobson

Traveller on Horseback in Eastern Turkey and Iran by Christina Dodwell

Through Travellers Eyes: European Travellers on the Iranian Monuments by Heleen Sancisi-Weerdenburg

The Road to Oxiana by Robert Bryron

Closed Circuit History by Ardashir Muhassis

Blind Owl: and other Heyadat Stories by Sadiq Hiyadat

Masquerade by Sarah Hobson

Iran: World Map American Map Company

Iran: A Child's Story, A Man's Experience by Gholam-Reza, Sabri Tabrizi

A Travel Guide To Iran by M T Faramarzi is only available through Caravan-Serai Tours Inc. If you wish to order this book, please send us an email at info@caravan-serai.com

IRAQ

Return to Baghdad: An American Woman's Journey - Cosette Marie Laperruque, Mary Alice Murphy
ISBN 1-59286-977-7

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