Azar Nafisi by Zarlasht Sultan https://padlet.com/sultazar000/qj74c27rm7g5r57e By Azar Nafisi en-us 2023-02-09 18:18:13 UTC 2023-04-01 03:42:23 UTC hello@padlet.com #1 Leaving Iran sultazar000 https://padlet.com/sultazar000/qj74c27rm7g5r57e/wish/2540025355 Azar Nafisi was thirteen years old when she left her homeland, Iran. She went to Lancaster, England to finish her studies. She went there with her family. 

Quote 1 “Not having registered as yet that the home she had left seventeen years before, at the age of thirteen, was not home anymore.” Page 81

]]> 2023-03-31 15:20:10 UTC https://padlet.com/sultazar000/qj74c27rm7g5r57e/wish/2540025355 #3 Her teenage life sultazar000 https://padlet.com/sultazar000/qj74c27rm7g5r57e/wish/2540028327
A while before her eighteenth birthday, Azar got married to a man who was cruel to her, did not respect her or her choices. 

Quote 3 “Before my eighteenth birthday…I married a man whose most important credential was that he wasn’t like us—he offered a way of life which, in contrast to ours, seemed pragmatic and uncomplicated; and he was so sure of himself.” Page 83 

]]> 2023-03-31 15:22:40 UTC https://padlet.com/sultazar000/qj74c27rm7g5r57e/wish/2540028327 #6 Living abroad sultazar000 https://padlet.com/sultazar000/qj74c27rm7g5r57e/wish/2540029802 When she was abroad in England and Switzerland, and later lived in America, she always attempted to shape other places according to her concept of Iran. 

Quote 6 “During my first years abroad—when I was in school in England and Switzerland, and later, when I lived in America, I attempted to shape other places according to my concept of Iran.” Page 82

]]> 2023-03-31 15:23:47 UTC https://padlet.com/sultazar000/qj74c27rm7g5r57e/wish/2540029802 #4 Moving to America sultazar000 https://padlet.com/sultazar000/qj74c27rm7g5r57e/wish/2540030759 After her marriage, Azar moved to America because of her husband’s education. In America they lived in Oklahoma.  

Quote 4 “I moved with him to Norman, Oklahoma, where he was getting his master’s in engineering at the University of Oklahoma.” Page 83

]]> 2023-03-31 15:24:43 UTC https://padlet.com/sultazar000/qj74c27rm7g5r57e/wish/2540030759 #5 Her divorce sultazar000 https://padlet.com/sultazar000/qj74c27rm7g5r57e/wish/2540033635 After being married for six months Azar wanted to divorce him but she was waiting for her dad to get out of jail first. Which took her another three years to divorce him because her husband also refused to divorce her. After her divorce Azar stayed in Norman and attended the University of Oklahoma. 

Quote 5 “He returned home while I stayed on in Norman, the only foreign student in the English Department.” Page 83

]]> 2023-03-31 15:27:23 UTC https://padlet.com/sultazar000/qj74c27rm7g5r57e/wish/2540033635 #2 Azar in Switzerland sultazar000 https://padlet.com/sultazar000/qj74c27rm7g5r57e/wish/2540038665 When she was in Switzerland, in her sophomore year, while studying at school, her principal gave her the news that her dad, who was the youngest mayor in Tehran’s history, had been jailed. Which made her not continue her Swiss education. 

Quote 2 “In my sophomore year, while studying at a horrible school in Switzerland…There I was told that they had just heard on the radio that my father, the youngest mayor in Tehran’s history, had been jailed.” Page 45

]]> 2023-03-31 15:32:06 UTC https://padlet.com/sultazar000/qj74c27rm7g5r57e/wish/2540038665 #7 Politics sultazar000 https://padlet.com/sultazar000/qj74c27rm7g5r57e/wish/2540049474 Azar’s mother side of her family was known for their contributions to literature and science. So when her dad was jailed her family felt more proud of his term in jail than when he was a mayor. Which led Azar to join the Iranian student movement. 

Quote 7 “My father’s imprisonment and my family’s vague nationalist sympathies had sensitized me towards politics.” Page 85 

]]> 2023-03-31 15:41:28 UTC https://padlet.com/sultazar000/qj74c27rm7g5r57e/wish/2540049474 #8 The year of 1977 sultazar000 https://padlet.com/sultazar000/qj74c27rm7g5r57e/wish/2540052990 In the fall of 1977 in September Azar married Bijan Naderi who she met two years earlier at a meeting at Berkeley where she fell in love with him. 

Quote 8 “The fall of 1977 was memorable for two events: my marriage in September and…” Page 86

]]> 2023-03-31 15:44:01 UTC https://padlet.com/sultazar000/qj74c27rm7g5r57e/wish/2540052990 #9 The year of 1979 sultazar000 https://padlet.com/sultazar000/qj74c27rm7g5r57e/wish/2540054906 In 1979, Azar returned back to Iran, and just over a month after she landed at the Tehran airport, she became a teacher in the English Department at the University of Tehran. Page 87

]]> 2023-03-31 15:45:24 UTC https://padlet.com/sultazar000/qj74c27rm7g5r57e/wish/2540054906 #10 University of Tehran sultazar000 https://padlet.com/sultazar000/qj74c27rm7g5r57e/wish/2540056496 In the University of Tehran Azar joined department meetings and faculty meetings in support of women, workers, and militant Kurdish or Turkmen minorities. Page 99

]]> 2023-03-31 15:46:46 UTC https://padlet.com/sultazar000/qj74c27rm7g5r57e/wish/2540056496 #11 Banning foreign-language books sultazar000 https://padlet.com/sultazar000/qj74c27rm7g5r57e/wish/2540058483 During the Islamic Revolution, the government forbade foreign-langauge books. They closed all the bookstores that sell it. But Azar took the risk and continued on reading Gatsby in the University of Tehran to her students.

Quote 9 “When we started reading Gatsby in November, but couldn’t finish it until, January, because of the constant interruption…I was taking some risks in teaching such a book at such time, when certain books had been banned as morally harmful.” Page 108 

]]> 2023-03-31 15:48:35 UTC https://padlet.com/sultazar000/qj74c27rm7g5r57e/wish/2540058483 #12 Protest meeting sultazar000 https://padlet.com/sultazar000/qj74c27rm7g5r57e/wish/2540059775 In early November, at the University of Tehran, Azar canceled her class and went to a protest meeting. She wanted to oppose the government’s attempts to impose the veil on the large demonstrations against the revolutionary government’s policies against women, and she was determined not to miss any more. Page 111

]]> 2023-03-31 15:49:41 UTC https://padlet.com/sultazar000/qj74c27rm7g5r57e/wish/2540059775 #13 Islamic Revolution rules sultazar000 https://padlet.com/sultazar000/qj74c27rm7g5r57e/wish/2540061013 The University wanted all women to wear scarf. But Azar refused to wear scarf or the veil as a piece of cloth. Due to not wearing a scarf Azar was expelled from the University. 

Quote 10 “When I thought at the university—rituals governing what I was forced to wear, how I was expected to act, the gestures I had to remember to control.” Page 9

]]> 2023-03-31 15:50:51 UTC https://padlet.com/sultazar000/qj74c27rm7g5r57e/wish/2540061013 #14 The University of Allameh Tabataba’I sultazar000 https://padlet.com/sultazar000/qj74c27rm7g5r57e/wish/2540062111 Azar then began teaching at Allameh Tabataba’I University. But after a period of time she wanted to resign from her position, however the University didn’t accept her resignation. So then Azar stopped going to the university which forced the University to expel her. 

]]> 2023-03-31 15:51:55 UTC https://padlet.com/sultazar000/qj74c27rm7g5r57e/wish/2540062111 #15 The year of 1995 sultazar000 https://padlet.com/sultazar000/qj74c27rm7g5r57e/wish/2540062908 In the fall of 1995, after resigning from her last academic post, she decided to indulge herself and fulfill a dream. She chose seven of her best and most committed students and invited them to come to her home every Thursday morning to discuss literature. Page 3 

]]> 2023-03-31 15:52:43 UTC https://padlet.com/sultazar000/qj74c27rm7g5r57e/wish/2540062908 #16 Her Secret Book Discussions sultazar000 https://padlet.com/sultazar000/qj74c27rm7g5r57e/wish/2540065049 Her first meeting with her secret book discussions with a group of female students in her home was on Thursday in early september. All of her students were women; Nassrin, Mahshid, Manna, Azin, Yassi, Mitra, and Sanaz. One of her students who was a male wanted to join her group but due to the Islamic Revolution Azar only chose her female students. She was scared that they would get caught. Page 7 

]]> 2023-03-31 15:54:52 UTC https://padlet.com/sultazar000/qj74c27rm7g5r57e/wish/2540065049 #17 Reading Lolita sultazar000 https://padlet.com/sultazar000/qj74c27rm7g5r57e/wish/2540066699 With her female students in her home, Azar read them foreign-langauge books. The books were: Reading Lolita, Invitation to a Beheading, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, and A Thousand and One Nights. Which they used as an escape from the cruel reality. Part 1 Reading Lolita

]]> 2023-03-31 15:56:26 UTC https://padlet.com/sultazar000/qj74c27rm7g5r57e/wish/2540066699 #18 Summer of 1996 sultazar000 https://padlet.com/sultazar000/qj74c27rm7g5r57e/wish/2540067920 In the summer of 1996, when Azar, her two children and Yassi were staying home a sudden knock was heard on the door. Two men from the Revolutionary Committee came to raid her house and to take her satellite dish away. Page 66-67 

]]> 2023-03-31 15:57:38 UTC https://padlet.com/sultazar000/qj74c27rm7g5r57e/wish/2540067920 #19 Nightmares sultazar000 https://padlet.com/sultazar000/qj74c27rm7g5r57e/wish/2540069725 Azar Nafisi had always had nightmares and woke up screaming because she thought she would never be able to leave the country. This was partly based on fact, since the first two times when she tried to leave she was turned down at the airport and once she was escorted to the headquarters of the Revolutionary Court. In the end she did not leave Iran for eleven years. Page 107 

]]> 2023-03-31 15:59:15 UTC https://padlet.com/sultazar000/qj74c27rm7g5r57e/wish/2540069725 #20 June 24, 1997 sultazar000 https://padlet.com/sultazar000/qj74c27rm7g5r57e/wish/2540070446 On June 24, 1997, Azar finally left Iran after 18 years. She left with her husband and her family to America. As she left Iran her students also left Iran where some of them went to Europe or America. 


]]> 2023-03-31 15:59:54 UTC https://padlet.com/sultazar000/qj74c27rm7g5r57e/wish/2540070446 Outside #5 sultazar000 https://padlet.com/sultazar000/qj74c27rm7g5r57e/wish/2540154510 2023-03-31 17:27:13 UTC https://padlet.com/sultazar000/qj74c27rm7g5r57e/wish/2540154510 Outside Source #3 sultazar000 https://padlet.com/sultazar000/qj74c27rm7g5r57e/wish/2540155387 2023-03-31 17:28:10 UTC https://padlet.com/sultazar000/qj74c27rm7g5r57e/wish/2540155387 Outside Source #1 sultazar000 https://padlet.com/sultazar000/qj74c27rm7g5r57e/wish/2540155822 2023-03-31 17:28:43 UTC https://padlet.com/sultazar000/qj74c27rm7g5r57e/wish/2540155822 Outside Source #2 sultazar000 https://padlet.com/sultazar000/qj74c27rm7g5r57e/wish/2540156921 2023-03-31 17:29:56 UTC https://padlet.com/sultazar000/qj74c27rm7g5r57e/wish/2540156921 MLA Citation sultazar000 https://padlet.com/sultazar000/qj74c27rm7g5r57e/wish/2540320520 Nafisi, Azar. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books. Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2004. ]]> 2023-03-31 21:16:16 UTC https://padlet.com/sultazar000/qj74c27rm7g5r57e/wish/2540320520 Outside Source #4 sultazar000 https://padlet.com/sultazar000/qj74c27rm7g5r57e/wish/2540329914 2023-03-31 21:37:41 UTC https://padlet.com/sultazar000/qj74c27rm7g5r57e/wish/2540329914