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EDNOTE. BELOW IS AN EXTRACT FROM HER ARTICLE DESCRIBING HER E-MAIL EXCHANGE
WITH A FRIEND IN IRAN. THE NPR INTERVIEW SHE MENTIONS WAS REPORTED ON
NABOKV-L AND WAS AVAILABLE ON THE NPR WEB PAGE.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stringer-Hye, Suellen" <suellen.stringer-hye@vanderbilt.edu>
>
> ---------- Forwarded Message ----------
> Date: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 12:53 PM -0400
> From: Azar Nafisi
> To: DialogueProject@jhu.edu
> Subject: Azar Nafisi in the Washington Post
>
> The following article appeared in the Washington Post on Sunday,
> July 6.
>
> 'Do I Have Life? Or Am I Just Breathing?'
>
> My highest point has been two interviews on NPR. [One] was about
> the concept of exile in literature, and Dmitri Nabokov also
> participated, bringing tears to my eyes, reading his father's
> poems, telling us what Nabokov missed of his country was the air
> and the trees and the skies of his homeland and more than anything
> else its language . . . And I talked about our own sense of exile
> at home . . . how they had transformed the air and the trees and
> streets and yes, the language of our homeland for us so that home
> was no more and will never be home again. . . .
>
>
> *********
> Azar Nafisi
> Director, The Dialogue Project
> School of Advanced International Studies
> The Johns Hopkins University
WITH A FRIEND IN IRAN. THE NPR INTERVIEW SHE MENTIONS WAS REPORTED ON
NABOKV-L AND WAS AVAILABLE ON THE NPR WEB PAGE.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stringer-Hye, Suellen" <suellen.stringer-hye@vanderbilt.edu>
>
> ---------- Forwarded Message ----------
> Date: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 12:53 PM -0400
> From: Azar Nafisi
> To: DialogueProject@jhu.edu
> Subject: Azar Nafisi in the Washington Post
>
> The following article appeared in the Washington Post on Sunday,
> July 6.
>
> 'Do I Have Life? Or Am I Just Breathing?'
>
> My highest point has been two interviews on NPR. [One] was about
> the concept of exile in literature, and Dmitri Nabokov also
> participated, bringing tears to my eyes, reading his father's
> poems, telling us what Nabokov missed of his country was the air
> and the trees and the skies of his homeland and more than anything
> else its language . . . And I talked about our own sense of exile
> at home . . . how they had transformed the air and the trees and
> streets and yes, the language of our homeland for us so that home
> was no more and will never be home again. . . .
>
>
> *********
> Azar Nafisi
> Director, The Dialogue Project
> School of Advanced International Studies
> The Johns Hopkins University