A conversation at the mk2 Bibliothèque with Azar Nafisi. Writer and professor of literature, author of best-seller Lire Lolita à Téhéran, Azar Nafisi is one of the biggest intellectual figures engaged in the fight for Iranian women’s rights. Expelled from the University of Tehran in 1981 for refusing to wear a veil, forced to work in hiding, and finally self-exiled to the United States in 1997, Azar Nafisi has worked incessantly in the fight against any form of political or religious authoritarianism. Nafisi will be in conversation with essayist and journalist Caroline Fourest. All proceeds from this event will go toward the human rights agency Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA).

The American Library in Paris will be co-sponsoring this event.

Important information: This event will take place in person at the mk2 Bibliothèque at 128 – 162 Av. de France, 75013 Paris.

This conversation will be in French.

Access to this event requires purchase of a ticket through mk2. Click on the button below to purchase your ticket.