Homa Hoodar is free. Aviation think tank. Mohamed Fahmy.

Various issues concerning Concordia University are often reported on by news outlets. Here is the most recent coverage pertaining to the institution: 

• After 112 days of confinement in Iran's Evin prison, where she was deprived of treatment for her neurological condition and was prevented from contact with her lawyer and her family, Homa Hoodfar was finally released, yesterday. The professor emeritus of anthropology, whose health had been in decline, was sent from Iran to Oman, where she was met by her niece, Hoodfar family spokesperson Amanda Ghahremani. Hoodfar had been accused by Iranian authorities of "dabbling in feminism".
• The following is an accounting of coverage of Hoodfar's release by news outlets around the world: 
• The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Time,  Daily Mail (UK) ,BBCnews.com, The Guardian, DeutscheWelle.com, CBC (The National at the 5:30-mark, CBC online text, local television at the 5:40-mark, and radio), Global National early evening newscast (at the 6-minute mark), Radio Canada (online text),  Radio Canada International, CTV National News (starting at the 6:10-mark), CTV Montreal evening newscast (video and text) CTV News Channel (text and video, including a clip from a news conference at Concordia, detailed below), The Canadian Press (picked up by the Montreal Gazette, The Halifax Chronicle Herald, Regina Leader-Post, The Waterloo Record, News 95.7 Halifax, WGTK South Carolina), La Presse Canadienne (picked up by L'actualité, Le Soleil, 98,5fm.ca),  Global News Montreal (text and video of the Concordia news conference, detailed below, and of the announcement in the House of Commons of Hoodfar's arrival in Oman), Le Devoir, Canoe, TVA Nouvelles (video bulletin and text),  Le Journal de Montréal, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, Ottawa Citizen, Calgary Herald, The Province, Huffington World Post, Huffington Post Canada (text and audio), Huffington Post Québec (text and a video), Academica, CJAD.com, Canada Standard, U.S. News and World Report (behind a paywall), Boston Globe, Reuters (picked up by The Irish Times, Belfast Telegraph), The Journal and Independent (Ireland), Europe 1, Ouest-France, Radio Free Europe, Voice of America News, Mexico Star, Associated Press (picked up by Maclean's, Fox News, The News & Advance, The Big Story), National Newswatch, Tehran Times, Kuwait News Agency, Qatar Tribune, The Peninsula (Qatar), Middle East Online, Middle East Eye, Pulse of the Middle East, The Muslim Times, Times of Oman, Muscat Daily, Tasnim News Agency, South China Morning Post, Payvand, Read Sri Lanka, Namibia Press Agency, Reuters India, Thomson Reuters Foundation News, MSN.com (drawing from Radio Canada and Reuters coverage), Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette, The Jamaica Gleaner, The Christian Science Monitor, Trend News Agency, Vice, Buzz Feed, Journal Métro, CRC Connection.  
• In related coverage: news accounts in numerous media include clips from a news conference at Concordia, Monday afternoon, with professors Marguerite Mendell, Kimberley Manning, Marc Lafrance and Shelley Reuter, who shared their feelings of joy and relief and expressed thanks to the Concordia community and to all those around the world who signed petitions and helped keep Hoodfar's case uppermost on the minds of the public and of decision-makers: CTV and CBC (live coverage), the Montreal Gazette, Gazette e-edition, La Presse +, Vancouver Sun, Edmonton Journal, Yahoo! Finance (with video from The Canadian Press) and, on campus, The Link and The Concordian. Additionally, professor Marc Lafrance is interviewed on CJAD (no link available), Marguerite Mendell is heard on CBC Radio's 'Daybreak' and CBC morning radio in Quebec City (no links available) and Radio Canada television's 24/60 runs clips of Lafrance and Mendell (starting at the 55-second mark) from yesterday's Concordia news conference. Mendell was also interviewed this morning on the Radio Canada Première program 'Garvel le matin' (segment beginning at the 1:11:45-mark of the audio file). Note also that Concordia has issued a statement from president Alan Shepard on Hoodfar's release; the federal government posts a release in which Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expresses relief on behalf of Canadians and thanks the governments of Oman, Italy and Switzerland, which Trudeau says were instrumental in helping secure Hoodfar's freedom; CNW/Telbec (reprised by Le Lézard) posts a release from premier Philippe Couillard and minister responsible for international relations, Christine St-Pierre expressing the Quebec government's relief on the news of Hoodfar's release; Geneviève Rail, professor in the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, shares her reaction to the news of Hoodfar's freedom in an interview for the Radio Canada program 'Médium large'; Le Devoir reports that Iranian authorities interrogated Hoodfar for up to nine hours a day on her writings about sexual diversity and feminism in Muslim countries; Radio-Canada's television's 24/60 airs an interview with Foreign Affairs Minister Stéphane Dion about Hoodfar's release (at the 3:10 mark). The Toronto Star writes that prime minister Justin Trudeau made personal appeals to allies, notably, Italy and Switzerland and Iranian ally Oman, to help free Hoodfar; the Montreal Gazette publishes a timeline of events in the Hoodfar case; the Québec Solidaire party posts a release, picked up by Le Lézard, in which MNA Amir Khadir expresses relief with the outcome in the Hoodfar case and urges Prime Minister Trudeau to show the same commitment to obtaining the release of other political prisoners of authoritarian regimes; the Green Party of Canada issues a statement on Hoodfar's release; the Quebec section of Lawyers without Borders and the Barreau du Québec post a joint release on CNW/Telbec to express their relief following Hoodfar's release.
• Comment and analysis appear in several media: an editorial in the Montreal Gazette delves into the value of top-level diplomacy and public pressure in securing favourable outcomes in cases of political internment and remarks on the various ways in which the Homa Hoodfar case in Iran, that of Kevin Garratt in China and the Mohamed Fahmy imprisonment in Egypt were handled; Le Devoir writes in its editorial pages about the lessons the federal government must draw from the Hoodfar and Garratt cases; The Globe and Mail publishes an editorial declaring Hoodfar's ordeal "absolutely needless"; analysis appears in The Globe and Mail of progress by Canada in its efforts to re-establish diplomatic ties with Iran, before and during the Hoodfar episode; CBC.ca writes that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's pattern of directly involving himself in consular cases appears to have born fruit in both the Hoodfar and Garratt files; Lise Ravary, blogging for Le Journal de Montréal, comments Canada's diplomatic victories in the Homa Hoodfar and Kevin Garratt files; Alex Neve of Amnesty International Canada tells a CTV News interviewer of his surprise at Hoodfar's sudden release and how he thinks it came about; The Canadian Press, picked up by Times Colonist, writes about the Hoodfar release and considers other Iranian Canadians who have been detained in Iran; the Windsor Star concludes that Hoodfar's release is a sign the Liberal government is making progress on relations with Iran; The McGill Tribune runs a piece about Hoodfar's release and what it says about the importance of her work.
• Please note: dozens more media, too numerous to list here, have reprised or written from different news agency accounts, listed above, of Hoodfar's release, of the efforts and means deployed to secure her freedom and of what the conclusion to the Hoodfar saga means for future relations between Canada and Iran.
• In other Concordia affairs:
• CanTech Letter, writing about yesterday's launch in Montreal of the week-long 2016 Civil Aviation Week conference, mentions the launch of an aviation think tank at Concordia.
• The McGill Daily reports on last week's Concordia’s 2016 Homecoming Keynote lecture by journalist Mohamed Fahmy, who talked about his imprisonment in Egypt. 

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