Reading Lolita in Tehran

As a soulless Imperialist swine who believes in Capitalism and the rights of young women to wear t-shirts and jeans in public, I found Reading Lolita in Tehran an intriguing book.  It tells the surprising story of Intellectuals living in Iran in the years after The Revolution.  Odd, my only thoughts on the people who stayed in Iran after Ayatollah Khomeini took over was that they were all fundamentalist nutcases with no brains at all. At the very onset Azar Nafisi says that she changed names and combined characters in order to protect the people she talks about in her…

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