To teach that lesson, she once told her students to Go Ask Alice. Once, my all-girl class put on a play, the trial scene from Alice in Wonderland. It became very crowded because the administration usually wouldn't let students do plays. But the girls wore colored clothing and some were made up.
Small things cause problems in Iran.
Nafisi, who earned her doctorate at Oklahoma University in 1979, had returned home to Iran just as the Islamic Revolution hit. She taught at University of Tehran, Free Islamic University, and Tabatabaii University, but clashed with government-controlled administrations. When she joined other women in refusing to wear the government-mandated veil in the early 1980s, she was expelled from the University of Tehran. After fleeting moments of openness gave way to crackdowns, she resigned elsewhere. Nafisi doesn't even teach politics, or international relations, or foreign policy.