The Advocates for Human Rights is pleased to announce its new book club, focused on great books with human rights themes. We hope that you can join us every other month for great conversation about books and human rights around the globe.

Book discussions will be brown bag lunches. Call 612-341-3302 for more information.

Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Azar Nafisi, a bold and inspired teacher, secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, as fundamentalists seized hold of the universities and a blind censor stifled artistic expression, teh women in Nafisi's living room spoke not only of the books they were reading but also about themselves, their dreams and disappointments. Azar nafisi's luminous masterwork gives us a rare glimpse, from the inside, of women's lives in revolutionary Iran.