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We Discuss Today’s Nobel Peace Prize Winner With Azar Nafisi and Summer Lopez
Published 2 years, 5 months ago
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The jailed Iranian women's rights activist Narges Mohammadi, is this year's recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Summer Lopez, chief program officer of Free Expression Programs at PEN America and Azar Nafisi, author of many books including Reading Lolita in Tehran and most recently Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times (Dey Street Books, 2022), discuss Mohammadi's work, and the importance, and difficulties of speaking truth to power.