A Defender of the Liberal Arts Contemplates Their Changing Role

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Writer Azar Nafisi is working on a book that defends the liberal arts.

By David Glenn, Santa Fe, N.M. in The Chronicle of Higher Education

For more than five years, Azar Nafisi has been working sporadically on a book called “The Republic of the Imagination,” which she describes as a treatise in defense of the liberal arts. The book, which isn’t expected until at least 2012, will explore some of the ideas about culture and democracy that were implicit in her best-selling 2003 memoir, Reading Lolita in Tehran. Read full article on Chronicle.com (Subscription Required) » » »

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