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کماکان بهترین بازبینی(یه)انتقادی را به گمان من دهباشی کرده. سعی میکنم برات پیداش بکنم.

Leva Jan:

I respect Azar Nafisi as an author, as I respect whomever takes the trouble to write and communicate her thoughts through this challenging medium.

I only want her to admit that when she lived in Iran, she was not an activist, as many try to portray her without any protest on her part. She was an ordinary government employee, who conformed just like everyone else, holding on to her job for many years, and emigrating to US when her visa was granted. If she is an activist today, it has been since she came to US, and most particularly since her book was published. That's all. She talked in Berkeley last night, but I didn't want to go. I would rather read her new book than go listen to her. In my thinking, she is an accomplished author. It is her insistence on being a public speaker on behalf of Iran which has exposed her to her to those accusations, too. She can go on book tours and talk about her books all she wants, but to transform into an "expert" on social and women's issues is a far cry from her true identity in my opinion.

Lotfan peydash kardin, bezar to blog.
vase man ham jalebe.
merci

سلام جیگرجان
به گمانم منظور حمید دباشی بوده‌است، هم‌سر گلبرگ باشی... البته به گمانم. به هر صورت این را ببین.

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=10707

لوا:

ممنونم فتانه جانم.

Dear Lava,
I read your blog regularly and I should say you should be really proud of being what you are at so young an age.

Regarding all these hue and cries about Dr. Azar Nafisi, I totally agree with Ms. Nazy Kamvari, since I was Dr. Nafisi's student at Allameh when I was an M.A student in 1989. The only thing which differenciated her from the rest of us and her colleagues was her wearing "scarf/ rosari" and not " Maghna'aeh" which was more customary those days. Otherwise I really don't remember anything special about her class discussions. I have had more outspoken and knowledgeable professors than her when I was a B.A. student ( at Tehran University between 1983 and 1987 ) and the political environment of Iran was much more restricted. I don't know when we Iranians would get rid of this "idol making"!!! By the way, here's a good review of Dr. Nafisi's work:1)http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/keshavarz120307.html, 2) http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=10707

Leva: I m honord. Thank you for your comment and the link. I will review and wirte my points. Thanks.