Bestselling Author to Discuss Iranian Revolution at Reston Community Center

The Iranian American bestselling author of “Reading Lolita in Tehran” comes to Reston Community Center’s CenterStage next month.

Author Azar Nafisi is set to discuss her book and other work — which offers a portrait of the Islamic revolution in Iran and its effect on one university professor and her students — on Wednesday, Nov. 6 at 8 p.m.

Copies of her books, including “The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books,” will be available for purchase and signing after the event.

Nafisi is a fellow at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies and has taught at Oxford University and several universities in Tehran.

Tickets are $15 for Reston residents and $20 for all others. More information about the event is available online.

Photo via Twitter/Azar Nafisi

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