Homa Hoodfar arrest. Pavilion for Peace. Arlene Dickinson, honorand. Zone Éducation-Culture.
Concordia in the news
Posted on June 9, 2016
University affairs
Various issues concerning Concordia University are often reported on by news outlets. Here is the most recent coverage pertaining to the institution:
- News broke late Wednesday afternoon of the arrest in Iran of Professor Homa Hoodfar who, until recently, taught in Concordia's Department of Sociology & Anthropology. Hoodfar, who holds Iranian and Canadian passports and had been visiting her family in Iran while also conducting research, was blocked from leaving the country in March. Following prolonged and repeated interrogation, Hoodfar was taken into custody at Iran's Evin prison earlier this week. There are reports that Iran accuses Hoodfar of "co-operating with a foreign state against the Islamic Republic of Iran." It is unclear if she has been charged. Her family indicates the Canadian government had been seeking a quiet diplomatic remedy to the situation. There is extensive worldwide coverage in hundreds of news outlets, including: The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Gulf News Iran, CBC News, CTV News (video and text), CTV Montreal, National Post, The Globe and Mail, Macleans.ca, La Presse + and LaPresse.ca, (Marguerite Mendell, professor in the School of Community and Public Affairs, is quoted), Montreal Gazette, Radio-Canada, Le Devoir, Le Journal de Montréal, Le Journal de Québec, L'actualité, Global News, 98,5fm.ca, CJAD News, Canoe, Journal Métro, Huffington Post Québec, Yahoo! News, Ottawa Citizen, Edmonton Sun, Calgary Herald, Eastern Ontario Network, MSN News, Reuters (Canada, UK, India, Africa) Thomson Reuters Foundation, Daily Mail, Times of Israel, Euro News, Swiss Info, ABCNews.com,Fox News, Metro US, The Toronto Star, The Huffington Post, Metro News Canada, 24news.ca, The Express Tribune (Pakistan), Ahram, Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha, Inside Higher Ed, Miami Herald, Chicago Daily Herald, Houston Chronicle, Hawaii News Now, Blackburn News, Daily News Updates, Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Re-publish News, The Loop. Additionally, Homa Hoodfar's niece in Montreal, Amanda Ghahremani, is interviewed on CBC's Daybreak.
- LaPresse.ca covered a media preview of the Michal and Renata Hornstein Pavilion for Peace — the new pavilion at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts on Bishop Street, set to open in the Fall. The report notes that the Pavilion for Peace includes an art therapy studio, developed in partnership with Concordia's Department of Creative Art Therapies.
- Entreprepeur Arlene Dickinson was interviewed for Radio Canada International and where she talked about receiving an honorary degree from Concordia. She was also interviewed on CBC Radio One's Homerun yesterday (no link available) to talk about the honour and about the entrepreneurial movement and her work at Venture Communications. The interview and accompanying text are reprised and linked by ZoBo (South Africa).
- Vie des Arts writes about last month's unveiling of Zone Éducation-Culture — a new educational partnership between Concordia, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) and the City of Montreal. Zone Éducation-Culture is a new public space on Bishop Street and includes an open space to link Concordia's Hall building to the MMFA's Michal and Renata Hornstein Pavilion for Peace, opening this fall.
