Quotes from Lila Azam Zanganeh

We do not read in order to turn great works of fiction into simplistic replicas of our own realities, we read for the pure, sensual, and unadulterated pleasure of reading.

At present, the most powerful forces for change in Iran's social landscape are emanating from women as well as from the younger generation of Iranians, the very children who, the Islamists had hoped, would in time rekindle their parents' long-lost political fervor.