Iranian author Azar Nafisi warns: 'Totalitarian mindsets can exist anywhere' • FRANCE 24 English
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- čas přidán 28. 06. 2023
- Our guest today symbolizes the power of literature which she captures in her internationally acclaimed memoir, “Reading Lolita in Tehran”. Through her powerful storytelling, she invites readers to embark on a journey to discover Iran beyond clichés. All her work explores themes of censorship, identity, struggle for individuality, shedding light on the experiences of women in Iran and their quest for freedom. In 1981, Nafisi was expelled from teaching at the University of Tehran for refusing to wear the Islamic veil and eventually left Iran for the US in 1997. She's been speaking to FRANCE 24's Fatimata Wane at the Taormina book festival in Italy, where she was given an award.
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Azar Nafisi is a world-voice, reminding us that there are no borders in books. A truly inspiring woman, and an incandescent writer.
It would've been naive If she mentioned how the EU and the Democrats in the US are empowering the regime with giving them money and lifting sanctions that would come with a deal with them, but I guess talking one side in the meaningless American culture war is more important.
By the way despite how Trump's presidency was, in Iran a large number of our people, if not the majority preferred him because he was tough on the regime.
Describing her book as “learning about women in Iran” is extremely reductive. Her book is not a memoir per-se, as she is a spectator to a whole society as it is being alienated. Her book is not about women in Iran, it is about the struggle of the self (everyone’s “self”) in a system that is collapsing from within, about how a society is coerced into submission by the mundanity of everyday life in a dictatorship
Reading is also a type of thinking. That's why it's dangerous to those in power.
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