News and Events

Forthcoming Academic Conference Presentations

“Art-informed Methodologies in Refugee and Forced Migration Research from the perspective of research about and with Iranian queer refugees,” at The Migration 2023 Hamburg Conference, Hamburg, Germany,  August 25, 2023.

The Migration Conference 2023 Hamburg

Past News

I am proud to announce that I am the Chief Editor and Curator of the Iranian Editions (Volume I & II) of The Bombay Review

Link to Editor’s Foreword

Link to Volume I

Link to Volume II

 

Hamilton Public Library and McMaster University proudly announce Nilofar Shidmehr as the Mabel Pugh Taylor 2019/20 Writer-in-Residence.

Nilofar Shidmehr is a bilingual poet, fiction writer, essayist, arts-informed scholar, and author of seven books in English and Farsi. Her first poetry book in English, Shirin and Salt Man (Oolichan, 2008), was nominated for a British Columbia Book Prize. Her most recent book, Divided Loyalties (Anansi Press, 2019), is a collection of short stories exploring women’s lives in post‐revolutionary Iran and in diaspora. It has already been well reviewed and promoted by CBC. The Globe and Mail included it in their 2019 list of “46 Books to Keep You Warm This Winter” and Open Canada Website included it in their “Summer Reads 2019: Ten books for globally minded vacationers.” A PhD in cross faculty inquiry in education, Nilofar has been Writer-in-Residence at the City of Richmond, BC, and Regina Public Library. Her writing has been featured in many Canadian and Iranian literary magazines, including Room, The Danforth Review, The New Quarterly, Zaman, and Avaye‐Tabiid (The Voice of Exile).

Book launch at the Association of the Iranian Women in Cologne, Germany