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Women’s Sport as Politics in Muslim Contexts. Montreal Signs Project. TAG.

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Posted on March 27, 2017

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  • Concordia professor emerita Homa Hoodfar was a guest on the latest edition of Global's 'Focus Montreal' current affairs interview program, where she discussed her new book, Women’s Sport as Politics in Muslim Contexts, printed in December 2015 by London-based charity Women Living Under Muslim Laws. Please note: the interview, aired yesterday morning, will be re-broadcast tonight, at midnight. The Hoodfar segment is found through the third link, toward the middle of the show page. The McGill Daily reports on last week's release of the new Homa Hoodfar book. 
  • Matt Soar, associate professor of Communication Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Science and director of the Montreal Signs Project, is featured in a photo montage on Urbania showing several of the commercial signs he has saved in recent years and which are now on display on the Loyola campus.
  • William Robinson, Concordia doctoral candidate and member of the Milieux Technoculture, Art and Games (TAG) research cluster, is featured in Le Devoir.