Azhar Nafisi: “Too Dysfunctional Consciences in America: Democracy at Risk”

“I am deeply worried about the next American elections, democracy will be at risk but above all for the decay of people’s sentiments due to the increasing number of inactive consciences”. Azhar Nafisi, an Iranian writer with US citizenship, told Adnkronos that the books were written Reading Lolita in Tehran e Read dangerouslyBoth published by Adelphi, Portenolec, the book and during the independence ceremony, today he will receive the Crédit Agricole award. A story in a novel.

Nafisi, who lives in Washington and teaches at the Graduate School of International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, said, “I think democracy is taken too lightly to empty its founding prerogatives, and the danger is not just for countries like Afghanistan, Iran, Uganda, but also for countries like France, Italy, Germany”.

“When I’m often in Washington, I go to the Holocaust Museum to remember what happened in the past, and I always remember what Primo Levi once said: I can’t imagine that there could be people who could take such inhumane attitudes towards others”, Azar Nafizi concluded.