Azar Nafisi

She (Atwood) used all facts to shape her dystopian novel, and she shapes these facts in a way that you get the spirt, the atmosphere of a totalitarian state. She makes it come alive for you.

Azar Nafisi

The wonderful new play by Clark Young and Derek Goldman has been published as Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski. Among the book's contributions is my conversation with @schneidercp titled “Bearing Witness and Speaking Truth to Power.” https://t.co/GCqIZp0gy3 https://t.co/Ln1rMnE59K

Azar Nafisi

Thank you to the @TwainHouse for hosting a lovely conversation with @ayadakhtar and I on Monday in honor of Mark Twain's birthday. We discussed the powerful themes of Ayad's new book, Homeland Elegies. A recording can be found here: https://t.co/oujJ1CEQkB #HomelandElegies

Azar Nafisi

@MargaretAtwood's The Handmaid’s Tale is so timely. “The life given by works of imagination goes beyond reality in the search of truth. That is why some readers of Atwood’s novel in #Iran have felt so close to the book, because they feel that it is describing their lives.” https://t.co/6M5H3CYGLx

Azar Nafisi

@ShimaOliaee Good time to be thinking of Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh, with Iranians coming into the streets, risking their lives to take back their confiscated dignity and national identity.

Azar Nafisi

Thank you @gbahadur for this gracious & detailed review of #ReadDangerously in the @washingtonpost. “With sensitivity and intelligence, it [Read Dangerously] offers a new canon for the tyrannies of the present and the dystopian possibilities of the future.”https://wapo.st/3KI5I3L