Reading Lolita in Tehran (2024) is a film based on the memoir of an Iranian-American author and Professor Azar Nafisi. The memoir was released in 2003. Eran Riklis, the director of this film is well known for his earlier films, “Lemon Tree,” “The Syrian Bride,” and “Dancing Arabs” among others. He stands opposed to the Israeli establishment’s views/policies/ treatment of Palestinians. Nadav Lapid is another Israeli film director who has similar views regarding Palestinians.

Be that as it may, the screen adaptation of the memoir has four parts. The narrative starts in a linear mode but digresses in the mid-part of the film. As this writer has not read the memoir, he is unable to gauge its actual adaptation. In other words, the intertextuality of this film, hence, also the cinematic liberties taken by the director. Any close observer of the developments in Iran over the last 4-5 decades will...