Assistant professor of political science at St. Mary's College of Maryland
and moderator of the colloquium's roundtable discussion, Sahar Shafqat is
a scholar of nationalism and ethnic conflict, gender and development, and
social and political movements. She has published articles and book chapters
in the American Journal of Political Science and the Journal of
Communist and Post-Communist Studies.
In "(Mis)Reading Lolita in Tehran," Shafquat will offer a critique
of Azar Nafisi's best-selling and controversial book, Reading Lolita in
Tehran. She will examine images of Muslim women in the West in terms of
Nafisi's book, which, according to Shafqat, has been misinterpreted in the
US in order to further US foreign policy goals.
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