From: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/5/15/145429/338
In 1979 Azar Nafisi left the United States and returned to her native Iran
after being offered a position at the University of Tehran teaching English
literature. Upon her arrival, Nafisi found herself in a country radically
different from the one she remembered from her youth; the Iran she returned to
was in the midst of its Islamic revolution and Nafisi was to soon find herself
at odds with the clerical authorities who now ruled the coun
