Iranian academic, writer and literary figure Fatemeh Keshavarz chairs the department of Asian and Near Eastern languages and literatures at Washington University in St. Louis. In 2007, she wrote Jasmine and Stars as a contrast to Azar Nafisi's 2003 best-seller, Reading Lolita in Tehran, copies of which have been circulating among members of the Marlboro community.
Keshavarz will discuss why she feels Nafisi's book presents "many damaging misrepresentations" of Iran and its people, and how her own book portrays Iranian women as teeming with intellectual curiosity and expression, and Iranian people as living not in fear but in hope.
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