October 13, 2006

Peeking Under the Cover

By RICHARD BYRNE

If there is one battleground that encompasses the complexities and competing claims of Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran and Hamid Dabashi's attack upon it, it is the cover of the book, which depicts two young Iranian women, cloaked in Islamic dress, reading intently.

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