Cyber machinations. American travel ban. Norma Joseph profiled. Religious extremism. Globalization and diversity. The famous Emer O'Toole.

Concordia faculty and researchers are regularly asked to offer expert, informed opinions on many of today's most pressing problems. Read some of the latest news items about Concordians:

• Mourad Debbabi, professor & Tier I Concordia Research Chair in the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering (CIISE) was interviewed on various Radio Canada platforms for his perspective on the newly-detected cyber-attack that originated in Ukraine and has spread globally, hitting banks, government IT systems, energy firms and others. Debbabi also commented recent developments involving efforts to counter cyber-attacks, including the establishment by Facebook, Microsoft, YouTube and Twitter of the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism: 'Le Téléjournal de Radio Canada' (re-broadcast from a live interview that opened the 9 pm edition of Téléjournal RDI); last evening's Radio Canada program 'L'heure du monde' (the Debbabi interview opens the program, at the 18:01 mark, through the second link on the show page). Debbabi was also interviewed for local and regional radio newscasts on the Radio Canada network.
• Graham Dodds, associate professor of political science in the Faculty of Arts and Science, is interviewed for CBC Radio Montreal's 'Daybreak' (no link available) and is quoted from the interview in a related text story onCBC.ca (picked up by Travel Wire News) about  the U.S. Supreme Court's validation of the Donald Trump Administration's ban on travel from certain Muslim-majority countries. Dodds was also interviewed this morning on City Montreal's Breakfast Television, where he discussed current U.S. political affairs, including the latest Republican drive to repeal and replace Obamacare and President Trump's efforts to cast his predecessor as the villain in the Russian hacking affair. 
• The Canadian Jewish News profiles Norma Baumel Joseph, professor of Religions and Cultures in the Faculty of Arts and Science and associate director of the Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies (see PDF, attached).
• André Gagné, associate professor of theological studies in the Faculty of Arts and Science, and Kyle Matthews, executive director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) at Concordia participated in a recent Global Media Forum discussion of religious extremism. Deutsche Welle posts video of the forum discussion, featuring Gagné and Matthews and moderated by Marie Lamensch, project coordinator and researcher at MIGS. 
• Deutsche Welle also posts a Global Media Forum roundtable discussion of globalization and diversity, featuring Kyle Matthews, first seen at the 10:30 mark. 
• Emer O'Toole, assistant professor in the School of Irish Studies in the Faculty Arts and Science, is interviewed forCBC Radio's 'Out in the Open' (audio and text) about her decision to stop removing hair from her legs.
• Jean-Philippe Warren, professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology in the Faculty of Arts and Science, and Gene Morrow (BA 14, political science), research assistant in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture, co-author an article in Journal Métro, part of a series highlighting various neighbourhoods of Montreal. The latest installment focuses on Old Montreal.

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