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The Republic of the Imagination: An Evening with Azar Nafisi
A Visions and Voices Signature Event

Admission is free. Reservations required. To RSVP, click on the links below beginning Wednesday, January 4, at 9 a.m.

USC Students, Staff and Faculty: To RSVP, click here http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/visionsandvoices/RSVP/reserve.php?RSVPEvtCode=194

General Public: To RSVP, click here http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/visionsandvoices/RSVP/reserveGeneral_Multi.php?RSVPEvtCode=194

Reception to follow.

Join us for an evening with Azar Nafisi, the internationally renowned author of Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, which electrified its readers with a compassionate and often harrowing portrait of the Islamic revolution in Iran. Reading Lolita in Tehran has won numerous awards, including the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, the Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award from Book Sense and the Frederic W. Ness Book Award. It was also named one of the 100 Best Books of the Decade by The Times (London). Nafisi is a visiting professor at the Foreign Policy Institute at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies. She has lectured and written extensively in English and Persian on the political implications of literature and culture, as well as the human rights of Iranian women and girls. She is currently working on a book entitled Republic of the Imagination about the power of literature to liberate minds and peoples.

Photo: S. J. Staniski

For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.edu

Location: George Finley Bovard Administration Building (ADM) - Bovard Auditorium

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Daria Yudacufski