Tragedy in the Mediterranean. Trumping the presidency? Autour de Maïr.

Concordia faculty and researchers are regularly asked to offer expert, informed opinions on many of today's most pressing problems. Read some of the latest news items about Concordians:

• Kyle Matthews, senior deputy director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies at Concordia, appears in Sunday's lead story on CBC's The National on  the continuing migrant crisis in the Mediterranean, as refugees crowd onto all manner of craft in the desperate flight to Europe from northern Africa. The dangerous crossing has resulted in a reported 700 drownings in recent days. Matthews is first seen at the 2:05 mark of the report.
• Graham Dodds, associate professor in the Department of Political Science, is interviewed in studio for CTV Montreal News. Dodds offers his perspective on the Republican presidential nomination of Donald Trump.
• Reporters (Algeria) writes about the recent screening in Algiers of the documentary film Autour de Maïr, which tells the story of feminist scholar Maïr Verthuy, cofounder and first director of the Simone de Beauvoir Institute at Concordia.

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