Novelist, journalist and academic; Visiting fellow and Director of Cultural Conversations at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC; author of Reading Lolita in Tehran and Things I Have Been Silent About, she is currently writing a book on the neglect of imagination and thought in the US
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