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February 4 Expelled from the University of Tehran for refusing to wear the veil, Azar Nafisi defied Islamic morality squads to teach forbidden Western classics in Iran. Nafisi is currently a professor at Johns Hopkins (Paul Nitze School for Advanced International Studies). She is the author of "Anti-Terra: A Critical Study of Vladimir Nabokov's Novels." With Iran-born novelist Gina Nahai, she discusses the freedoms that literature can bring.
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