Azar Nafisi: Women, Culture, Human Rights: The Case of Iran
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Azar Nafisi, Visiting Fellow, John's Hopkins University's Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and author of the critically-acclaimed best-seller, "Reading Lolita in Teheran" spoke to FPA at the New York Democracy Forum on the subject of "Women, Culture, Human Rights: The Case of Iran."
Nafisi spoke widely on the importance of democracy both at home and abroad, as well as the power of the arts in sustaining what she called a "Republic of Imagination." "I think that when we talk about the issue of democracy, we need to look at the others and we also need to look at ourselves," Nafisi said to a large audience at the Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College. "Democracy and terror, human rights and fundamentalism are not the property of the West. They are not geographically or nationally or culturally defined, they belong to all of us."Azar Nafisi, Visiting Fellow, John's Hopkins University's Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and author of the critically...all »Azar Nafisi, Visiting Fellow, John's Hopkins University's Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and author of the critically-acclaimed best-seller, "Reading Lolita in Teheran" spoke to FPA at the New York Democracy Forum on the subject of "Women, Culture, Human Rights: The Case of Iran."
Nafisi spoke widely on the importance of democracy both at home and abroad, as well as the power of the arts in sustaining what she called a "Republic of Imagination." "I think that when we talk about the issue of democracy, we need to look at the others and we also need to look at ourselves," Nafisi said to a large audience at the Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College. "Democracy and terror, human rights and fundamentalism are not the property of the West. They are not geographically or nationally or culturally defined, they belong to all of us."«
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