Azar Nafisi, a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, cited in “Have We Forgotten the Power of Poetry? While Afghani women risk their lives for verse, we ignore it”
Posted March 6, 2013
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Azar Nafisi
Azar Nafisi, the Iranian author who is a Consulting Editor for Interlitq, has been cited in “Have We Forgotten the Power of Poetry? While Afghani women risk their lives for verse, we ignore it” (Karen Swallow Prior, Christinaity Today, 05.03.13): “Their literary societies are so dangerous that they gather in secret, like the women immortalized a decade ago in Azar Nafisi’s memoir, Reading Lolita in Tehran.”

Karen Swallow Prior