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...Khamenei would always come and say, 'Shut up; what I say goes.' Everyone would say, 'O.K., it is the word of the leader.' Now the myth that there is a leader up there whose power is unquestionable is broken." -Azar Nafisi, the author of two memoirs about life in Iran, on how Khamenei's decree that the election results be reviewed - which he issued shortly after praising Ahmadinejad's "divine victory" - has undermined his claim to absolute authority. (New York Times, June...
...film version of Reading Lolita in Tehran. Why is a memoir about a women's reading group in Iran a best seller in the U.S.? It's got the Western literature that we are all in love with. I'm dying to play this role because [author Azar Nafisi] went to Iran right after the revolution. I left Iran in the middle of the revolution. This is the journey I deliberately decided not to take...
Diplomacy is rarely so rash. And yet, "It would certainly catch the mullahs by surprise," says Azar Nafisi, an Iranian dissident who is a fellow at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. "It would drive them crazy," she adds, laughing, "the thought of having an American embassy in Tehran again, with lines of people around the block, trying to get green cards. There is a theory that American cultural and economic power is so insidiously attractive that opening up to the U.S. would be the death of these regimes. I've heard it called the Fatal...
...Diplomacy is rarely so rash. And yet, "It would certainly catch the mullahs by surprise," says Azar Nafisi, an Iranian dissident who is a fellow at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. "It would drive them crazy," she adds, laughing, "the thought of having an American embassy in Tehran again, with lines of people around the block, trying to get green cards. There is a theory that American cultural and economic power is so insidiously attractive that opening up to the U.S. would be the death of these regimes. I've heard it called the Fatal...
...have close links to the royal family, there is a small Islamic movement that is critical of the debauchery of spoiled princelings on their sojourns outside the country and that challenges the dynasty's claim to be the sole spokesman for Islam. Tapes by a Kuwaiti scholar, Dr. Abdullah Nafisi, attacking the Saudi rulers and heralding Khomeini as the "real Muslim," sell for $200 on the black market in Jiddah...
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