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Every Thursday morning for 2 years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Azar Nafisi, a bold and inspired teacher, secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to see forbidden Western classics. Some originated from conservative and religious families, others were progressive and secular; some had spent amount of time in prison. They were shy and uncomfortable in the beginning, unaccustomed to being asked to speak their minds, but soon they removed their veils and started initially to speak more freely–their tales intertwining with all the books they were reading by Jane Austen, Y. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, and Vladimir Nabokov.