Arrest of Homa Hoodfar.
Concordia in the news
Posted on June 15, 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:
- University Affairs links to Monday's story in the Montreal Gazette about the growing movement at Concordia and elsewhere to pressure Iran to release retired Concordia professor Homa Hoodfar, arrested and detained at Iran's Evin prison. President Alan Shepard, Simone de Beauvoir Institute principal Kimberley Manning and School of Community and Public Affairs professor Marguerite Mendell are quoted or paraphrased. The Gazette piece is also reprised in its entirety by News 4 Security and Headlines News. Coverage of Hoodfar's arrest is joined also byFrontline Desk, Pasion Noticias, The Villages Suntimes, New York South East Post, Blog Notizie, RythmeFM.com (Montreal) and You Don't Know Football, as well as by Education International, which has joined with the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) and activist organisation Labour Start in a combined effort to press for Hoodfar's release. Academica posts a news brief on the Hoodfar arrest and provides links to earlier reports in theMontreal Gazette, Toronto Star and CBC. Finally, Marc Lafrance, associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and friend of Homa Hoodfar, was interviewed last evening on the CTV News Channel (no link available) about Hoodfar's situation.