The book examines the neo-Orientalist's characteristics in Azar Nafisi's memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (2003) and Khaled Hosseini's novel A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007). Also, the study offers a critique of neo-Orientalist's discourse that aims to normalize the negative representations of Muslims and the Middle East in the collective American perception, which also facilitates the public consent to imperial goals. This study uses the concept of Hamid Dabashi's "comprador intellectuals" to position Azar Nafisi and Khaled Hosseini as comprador intellectuals who facilitate...