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McMaster welcomes writer-in-residence Nooshin Salari

McMaster's Department of English & Cultural Studies is pleased to welcome fiction writer Nooshin Salari as our first International Writer-in-Residence. Nooshin Salari was born in Tabriz, Iran. She immigrated to Canada in 1992 and attended the University of Saskatchewan where obtained her degree in Pharmacy. Salari began writing short stories as a teenager in Tehran, Iran. Her first story, "School Library", appeared in 1980 in Negeen magazine. Since then, her stories have appeared in different literary magazines in Iran including The World of Words and in various volumes of the Anthology of Short Stories by Iranian and World Writers (selected by Safdar Taghizadeh), as well as a collection of short stories by contemporary Iranian female writers called At the Threshold of a Cold Season (selected by Toraj Rahnama and Susan Gaveri).

Debating Ontario’s Power Question: Wilson Lecture

Viv Nelles, McMaster's L.R. Wilson Professor of Canadian History, is hoping to reinvigorate public debate over the future of Ontario's electrical system. In his inaugural lecture Thursday Feb.16, Nelles told his audience that when he passes Hamilton Cemetery on York Boulevard, he hears voices; early twentieth-century community leaders engaged in a lively and constructive political debate over the power question. Now, in the early twenty-first century, the people of Ontario once more need to engage in a vigorous debate over the future of electricity. The conclusion to be drawn from the lecture: important and complex issues are for elections.