Centre for Free Expression

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Four episodes featuring some of our critical conversations are available now:

1. Can American Media Survive Trump and Billionaire Owners?
w/ panelists Joe Davidson (Veteran former Washington Post columnist), Margaret Sullivan (Columnist for The Guardian US), Max Tani (New York-based journalist at Semafor), & moderator Julian Sher (Journalist, author & CFE Senior Fellow)

2. Islamophobia on Canadian Campuses: Why and What to do?
w/ panelists Imam Yasin Dwyer (Executive Director, Muslim Chaplaincy of Toronto), Adel Iskandar (Associate Professor of Global Communication, School of Communication and Director, Centre for Comparative Muslim Studies, at Simon Fraser University), Maryam Laoufi (Advisor, Muslim Student Association at Concordia University), Basmah Ramadan (Student Advocacy Coordinator, National Council of Canadian Muslims; former President of the University of Toronto Muslim Students Association), & moderator Amira Elghawaby (Canada’s former Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia)

3. What Does the Western Media get Wrong About the Middle East?
w/ panelists Hadeel Al-Shalchi (Editor, NPR’s Weekend Edition), Mohamad Bazzi (Director, Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at New York University), Martin Lukacs (Managing Editor, The Breach), Ari Paul (Journalist, FAIR.org), & moderator Julian Sher (Journalist, author & CFE Senior Fellow)

4. “We Can’t Teach a Book With That Word in It”: Reflections on the Role of Literature in Society
w/ Lawrence Hill (Writer & author) and Debra Thompson (Associate Professor of Political Science at McGill University & Canada Research Chair in Racial Inequality in Democratic Societies)

Stay tuned for our next episode out June 15 at 12 p.m.