Homa Hoodfar.
Concordia in the news
Posted on August 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:
- The Guardian, reprised by Anshora and MyOnlinePortal.org, publishes an opinion piece whose author, Tariq Ramadan, a professor of contemporary Islamic studies at Oxford, writes that the detention of Homa Hoodfar in Iran is unjust and unIslamic and demands her release.
- The Réseau québécois en études féministes posts a resolution of its executive committee expressing its solidarity with Hoodfar.
- Hoodfar's detention is mentioned in an earlier report, reprised by Qantara, about a recent phone conversation between British Prime Minister Theresa May and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, with whom May raised concerns about the detention in Iran of a British woman, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.