Homa Hoodfar. Technology and innovation in education.
Concordia in the news
Posted on July 14, 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:
- An article continues to circulate in Canadian media that Iran is using Canadian citizens, like Homa Hoodfar and artist Parviz Tanavoli, as pawns in a tense political contest of wills between Iran's conservative establishment and the country's moderate leadership: Montreal Gazette, Ottawa Citizen, Edmonton Journal, Calgary Herald, The Province. Hoodfar's arrest is mentioned in other coverage of Iran's indictment of Tanavoli on charges of “disturbing public opinion and spreading falsehoods”: CBC.ca, IranHumanRights.org
- In related coverage:
- Numerous media pick up an earlier article from The Canadian Press quoting Canadian-Iranian journalist and former Evin prison inmate Maziar Bahari, who says the federal government and Hoodfar's supporters must speak out early and often if they are to put effective pressure on Iran to free Hoodfar: Ottawa Community News, The Vernon Morning Star, Revelstoke Review, Durham Region, Our London, Kingston Region, Guelph Mercury Tribune, Caledon Enterprise, The IFP.ca, The Now; Huffington Post reprises an earlier article from CBC.ca reporting that Ottawa refuses to say how many Canadians are currently being detained in Iran; an article appears in The Wall Street Journal focusing on the first anniversary of Iran's nuclear deal with Western powers and concluding that Iran's conservative establishment may have engineered the arrests of Homa Hoodfar and others to send a message to the country's moderate leadership that close ties with the West are not desirable; a similar conclusion is reached in a piece in Payvand Iran News, reprised from World Politics Review (June 22); the National Post publishes a letter from a reader who questions why Iranian dual nationals, such as Homa Hoodfar, who come completely under Iranian law as Iranian citizens when they return to their country of birth, should expect their adopted country to come to their rescue when they get into trouble in Iran; the Federation of Post-Secondary Educators of BC adds its voice to the growing international call for Hoodfar's release, with a letter to Iranian president Hassan Rouhani; Maclean's includes Hoodfar's continued detention in its latest news roundup; Feminist Philosophers posts an appeal for all concerned about Hoodfar's wellbeing to sign a petition demanding her release; France News offers a review of some of the recent coverage of Hoodfar's arrest;
- President Alan Shepard is listed among the participants in a roundtable discussion on technology and innovation in education, organized by the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) as part of last month's International Economic Forum of the Americas (IEFA) in Montreal: Gulf Times, Qatar is Booming, Doha Insight, Qatar Tribune, The Peninsula.