Homa Hoodfar. The power of music.
Concordia in the news
Posted on September 12, 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 Senior Times talks to Marguerite Mendell, vice-principal of and professor in the School of Community and Public Affairs, about the Homa Hoodfar imprisonment in Iran. Mendell, a close friend of Hoodfar, urges all concerned people to add their voices to the calls for Hoodfar to be set free; Counter Currents and ZNet post other recent appeals for Hoodfar's release; Hoodfar's detention is mentioned in reports on the imprisonment, on unknown charges, of British-Iranian humanitarian worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: The Wall Street Journal, The Telegram, The Times of Israel, ABC News, Fox News World, Yahoo! News, Gulf Digital News, Epoch Times,WNCN.com, News 2, Prince Rupert Northern View, The Independent Free Press, Middle East Monitor; The Hamilton Spectator reprises excerpts from a Toronto Star editorial (Monday, September 5) calling on Ottawa to increase pressure on Iran for Hoodfar's release; Ricochet Media publishes a column whose author advances that Canadians are largely indifferent to Hoodfar's plight.
- Concordia’s Centre for the Arts in Human Development (CAHD) is featured in a story in the Montreal Gazette and the paper's e-edition about the therapeutic power of music. It profiles creative art therapies professor and CAHD co-founder Stephen Snow and CAHD music therapist Shelley Snow (pictured together). CAHD co-founders Lenore Vosberg, the centre's current director, and Miranda D'Amico, professor in the Department of Education, are also referenced.