Skip to main content

Photovoice. CSU student housing. Islamic Awareness Week. Stingers on the ice.

Concordia in the news
Posted on February 28, 2017

Concordia in the news features stories of Concordians who appear in the news. Discover alumni, students, faculty and experts who recently made an impact in the media.

Students

Current students at Concordia do outstanding academic work and get involved in community projects that improve our quality of life. See what they've been up to:  

  • Art Education Master's student and photographer Amina Jalabi was on City Montreal's Breakfast Television this morning to talk about the Flash Forward Photovoice project she initiated as a means of helping newly-arrived Syrians integrate into their new Canadian community. Jalabi, who is from Syria, has participants use images to document their own experiences as newcomers. 
  • The Université de Montréal student paper Quartier Libre writes about the CSU-led project to build a 150-unit student housing building across from Parc Lafontaine.
  • MSN Video posts a City Montreal Breakfast Television interview with Ibrahim Abu Arab of the Concordia Muslim Students Association. Abu Arab talked about Islamic Awareness Week at Concordia.
  • Radio-Canada.ca reports the Stingers women's hockey team win over the Université de Montréal Carabins, 3-2, Saturday to take the RSEQ quarter-finals.
  • The Queen's Gazette and the Belleville Intelligencer report that the Queen's University Gaels beat the Stingers men's hockey team 2-0 in the third and deciding game of the OUA East semi-final set, Sunday in Montreal.