Kenza Oumlil. Mathieu Baril. Kamruz Zaman. Jo-Anna Downey.
Concordia in the news
Posted on February 3, 2017
Alumni in the news
Our alumni are featured in the media locally and around the world. Vist the Alumni News section to access an archive of stories or read the latest list of stories:
- Kenza Oumlil (PhD, communication, '12), a communication professor at Al Akhawayn University in Morocco, writes an opinion piece for AlJazeera.com (reprised by Yahoo! News) where she argues that the Quebec City mosque shooting was not an isolated, random or "senseless" event, but the product of growing Islamophobia in Canada.
- LaPresse.ca writes that Mathieu Baril (BFA, photography, with distinction, '09), funding director of the contemporary dance venue, Tangente, has received an ARDI 2017 prize for cultural philanthropy.
- BC Local News announces the appointment of Kamruz Zaman (MEng) as city engineer in the City of Port Alberni.
- The Globe and Mail publishes an obituary of Jo-Anna Downey, a Toronto-based stand-up comic who died in December at age 49. The obituary states that Downey, born in Montreal, graduated from Concordia with a degree in history.