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The West should be fighting extremist ideology.
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Azar Nafisi on Iranian culture being more poetry than sharia.
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They aren’t identical, Nafisi says.
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Even if you don’t agree with her views, Nafisi says, Hirsi Ali should not have to fear for her life for expressing them.
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Nafisi’s passion was always literature. Religion was an externally imposed reality.
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Nafisi isn’t making up the facts, she says.
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No one should be forced to do something they don’t want to do, Nafisi says.
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It is not women who make a big deal out of the hijab, Nafisi says. It is the Islamists.
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Nafisi responds to her critics who allege that Iran has become freer since Nafisi left.
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Nafisi found many of her old students when the book came out.
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There is state power, and then there is the power of the writer to resist the tyranny of reality.
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At some point, it isn’t, Nafisi says.
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Nabokov, Nafisi says, was a lot more political than he let on.
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Trained as a Nabokov scholar, Azar Nafisi formed a very personal bond to the writer’s works.
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Nafisi on the “portable world.”
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Nafisi is puzzled by the simplification and self-righteousness she encounters in America.
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Iran, Nafisi says, is a very paradoxical place.
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Nafisi was studying in the U.S. when the Revolution broke out in 1979. She chose to go back.