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Sunday, April 30, 2006
Do some Americans think like Iran's leaders?
“In Iran the regime sees western literature as decadent and morally corrupting--it cannot see literature for what it is. I had not expected there would be people in America who would think along the same lines.”
--Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran and now a resident scholar at the School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C., in an interview with Edward Luce of the Financial Times. Click here to read more.