Homa Hoodfar's return. IGOPP partners. Support Staff Day.
Concordia in the news
Posted on September 30, 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:
- There is continuing coverage of the return to Montreal of Homa Hoodfar after nearly four months of captivity in an Iranian prison. Media descended upon Trudeau International Airport yesterday morning to meet her as she arrived: CBC.ca (with raw video), CBC National (at the 6:15-mark) CBC Montreal News at 6 (at the 3:05-mark), Téléjournal 22h de Radio-Canada (broken link), Radio Canada International, CTV News Channel, BBC.com, The Guardian, ABCnews.com, CTV Montreal, Global News Montreal (video and text), TVA (video and text), Montreal Gazette (picked up by the Toronto Sun, Ottawa Citizen, Regina Leader-Post, Canoe), Gazette e-edition, LaPresse.ca, La Presse +, Le Devoir, Le Journal de Québec, National Post, The Globe and Mail (with raw video from The Canadian Press), The Huffington Post, The Toronto Star, Journal Métro, CJAD.com, RougeFM.ca, FoxNews.com, Vice Canada, Vice UK, Arab News, News Hub South Africa, Euro News, Yahoo! News, Victoria Times Colonist, The Hamilton Spectator, The Province, Kitchener Post, Waterloo Chronicle, Guelph Mercurt Tribune, The Independent Free Press, Herald & Review, The News-Gazette, RadioÉnergieSaguenay.ca, 680news.com, Advocate Daily, MMC News, MRT.com, Pantagraph, Planet Genius, Canada Live News, Global Voices.
- Watch CTV's raw video of Hoodfar's arrival and of the complete airport news conference.
- In related coverage: University Affairs links to an earlier editorial in the National Post (Wednesday, September 28) pointing to the Hoodfar case as another warning of the dangers of dealing with certain regimes; Timmins Press runs an editorial on the importance of diplomacy, combined with public pressure, in obtaining the release of Canadians held abroad. The specific cases of Homa Hoodfar and Kevin Garratt are mentioned; Amnesty International UK posts a news release urging the British government to step up pressure on Iran to release British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. It mentions the release by Iran of Homa Hoodfar.
- Finally, the Radio-Canada première chaîne program 'Plus on est de fous plus on lit' reports on Homa Hoodfar's writings on Iranian feminism and the veil. The introduction to the audio lists three of Hoodfar's works: Iran : politiques islamiques et femmes en quête d’égalité, co-authored with Shadi Sadr in Religion et politique : les femmes prises au piège (Éditions L'Harmatttan, 2012); Le voile islamique : volet 1 et 2, Chaire Concordia-UQAM en études ethniques de l'Université du Québec à Montréal, 2001; The Veil in Their Minds and on Our Heads : The Persistence of Colonial Images of Muslim Women, in Resources for Feminist Research (1992)
- A Marketwired release announces the result of a study by the Institute for Governance (IGOPP): "What’s the Risk of Losing a Significant Number of Corporate Head Offices Now Located in Quebec?" It notes that the IGOPP was created in 2005 by Concordia and HEC Montréal: Money News, Digital Journal, Finanznachrichten, CEO.ca,Yahoo! Finance, Business Press, Jacksonville.com.
- The Fédération des employées et employés de services publics (FEESP-CSN), representing 700 support staff at Concordia, posts a release to mark the Journée nationale du personnel de soutien en éducation: Le Lézard.