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Migration, Immigration, Refugees: Sorting Fact from Fiction, with Nahlah Ayed, CBC

Excellence in Journalism Lecture and Reception


Date & time
Wednesday, February 8, 2017
6 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Speaker(s)

Nahlah Ayed

Cost

Free, by invitation

Organization

Department of Journalism

Where

Communication Studies and Journalism Building
7141 Sherbrooke W.
Room 3.306

Wheel chair accessible

Yes

Biography:

Nahlah Ayed is a CBC foreign correspondent based in London. A veteran of foreign reportage, she's covered major world events: the refugee crisis across Europe, the dying days of Iran under international sanctions, and the conflict in Ukraine. Ayed also spent nearly a decade working in and covering conflicts across the Middle East.

Prior to joining CBC News, Ayed was a parliamentary reporter for The Canadian Press. On November 7th, she received an honorary doctorate from Concordia University: http://www.concordia.ca/cunews/main/stories/2016/10/12/concordia-awards-4-new-honorary-doctorates-rovinescu-chassagne-klawe-ayed.html

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