Azar Nafisi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Azar Nafisi

Iranian academic and writer

Date of Birth: 01-Dec-1955

Place of Birth: Tehran, Tehran Province, Iran

Profession: writer, professor, public figure, journalist, literary critic, novelist, faculty member

Nationality: United States, Iran

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Azar Nafisi (Persian: ??? ??????; born 1948) is an Iranian writer and professor of English literature.
She has resided in the United States since 1997 and became an American citizen in 2008.Nafisi has been a visiting fellow and lecturer at the Foreign Policy Institute of Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and served on the Board of Trustees of Freedom House.
She is the niece of famous Iranian scholar, fiction writer and poet Saeed Nafisi.
Azar Nafisi is best known for her 2003 book Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, which remained on the New York Times Bestseller list for 117 weeks, and has won several literary awards, including the 2004 Non-fiction Book of the Year Award from Booksense.Since Reading Lolita in Tehran, Nafisi has written Things I've Been Silent About: Memories of a Prodigal Daughter and The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books.