Homa Hoodfar. Sports therapy.
Concordia in the news
Posted on August 10, 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:
- Amnesty International focuses on the case of Homa Hoodfar in an article about the repression of women's rights activists and academics in Iran and repeats its call for Hoodfar's immediate and unconditional release. The report is picked up by Al Arabiya. Hoodfar's detention is mentioned also in a Politics Home report about a phone conversation, earlier this week, between British Prime Minister Theresa May and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, with whom May raised concerns over the detention in Iran of a British woman, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.
- L'Hebdo Journal, reporting that Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières is launching a sports therapy program, notes that, until now, Concordia was the only university in Quebec to offer such a program of study.