{"id":199539,"date":"2026-07-10T07:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T07:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/199539\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T07:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T07:40:07","slug":"reading-lolita-in-tehran-review-great-books-mixed-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/199539\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Reading Lolita in Tehran\u2019 Review: Great Books, Mixed Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-type=\"paragraph\" data=\"[object Object]\" class=\"css-1qg6i2u eew040j0\">Recent events in <a data-type=\"place\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/topics\/place\/iran\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ekxajjj0 css-i0lbhy-OverridedLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Iran<\/a> have placed a fascinating country under more scrutiny than usual, and \u201cReading Lolita in Tehran\u201d provides a bracing sense of what it has been like to live in this deeply repressive culture since the 1979 Islamic revolution.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"paragraph\" data=\"[object Object]\" class=\"css-1qg6i2u eew040j0\">Azar Nafisi, an English literature professor who got her doctorate at the University of Oklahoma, returned to her native <a data-type=\"place\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/topics\/place\/tehran\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ekxajjj0 css-i0lbhy-OverridedLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tehran<\/a> just after the tides of history swept away the shah and swept in the ayatollah. As captured in a dramatization of her bestselling 2003 memoir, she apparently thought life would continue somewhat the same as before. It didn\u2019t.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-16aepit e1jdulti0\">Copyright \u00a92026 Dow Jones &amp; Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Recent events in Iran have placed a fascinating country under more scrutiny than usual, and \u201cReading Lolita in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[19466,58888,58889,488,3768,5964,4495,5147,5962,5955,52904,52906,948,2093,5963,197,34,49,857,42278,5975,5957,58891,5965,69,9733,58890,5967],"class_list":["post-199539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tehran","tag-arts","tag-arts-in-review","tag-arts-entertainment","tag-asia","tag-books","tag-ce-exclusion-filter","tag-college","tag-columns","tag-content-types","tag-developing-economies","tag-dragonfly-middle-east","tag-dragonfly-world","tag-education","tag-entertainment","tag-factiva-filters","tag-general-news","tag-iran","tag-middle-east","tag-middle-east-and-north-africa","tag-movies","tag-political","tag-political-general-news","tag-reviews","tag-synd","tag-tehran","tag-university","tag-university-college","tag-wsj-pro-wsj-com"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116894552735462150","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}