Homa Hoodfar's return. University fixer-uppers.
Concordia in the news
Posted on October 7, 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:
- Homa Hoodfar continues to tell her story of incarceration in Iran in a series of interviews with Canadian news media:
- Media reports continue to circulate on Hoodfar's initial CBC interview, which she granted on Wednesday: Radio-Canada.ca (text only), Radio Canada International, Global Terrorism, The Tower, Thunder Bay Live, Whatsup Americas, Pariao, Cosumnes Connection, Top Topic, Iroon.com, Kadri; CTV News also did an interviewed with Hoodfar, which it posted, uncut, in two segments; CTV News Montreal posts a report on the interview, which was reprised by The Loop; CTVnews.ca runs a separate story in which Hoodfar says she believes her jailing was ordered by religious hardliners who wanted a foreign scapegoat to blame for their election loss; Fluctu8 posts highlights of an interview Hoodfar gave on CBC Radio's 'The Current'; accounts of interviews with Hoodfar appeared in or were reprised by numerous other media: the Montreal Gazette, including video (picked up byOttawa Citizen, Regina Leader-Post, The Province, MSN.com and ReportCA); Le Devoir (reprised byenManchette.ca, NioozFrance); La Presse +; The Times (UK) picks up a report from an Associated Press interview with Hoodfar.
- In related coverage: The Fulcrum and Payvand (reprised by Kodoom and Make Me Feed) join international coverage of Hoodfar's release, last week; The Tower refers to Hoodfar's accounts of her detention in an article about the U.N.'s condemnation of Iran's treatment of detainees.
- In other univerity affairs:
- University Affairs posts a link to an earlier CBC.ca report on the critical state of disrepair of certain Quebec universities.