Her film, called A Kandahar Away, follows the Jamal family to Kandahar, Sask.
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Changing Ontario: South Asian Women Step Up to Empower the Community
As Toronto evolves into the world’s most multicultural city, so does its colourful communities, rising as a collective force to overcome challenges. This time, it’s the women who are initiating change. Meet a few dynamic…
View More Changing Ontario: South Asian Women Step Up to Empower the CommunityWhat to do About Afghanistan?
I have come to know the journalist Michael Petrou over the past few years. He would sometimes call me to seek my views on terrorism when he was with Macleans magazine and I relied heavily…
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We Can Choose Not to be Afraid
We live in a world where fear is easy to spread. There is no shortage of evidence that bad things happen and that there are some bad actors in a lot of places. The rise…
View More We Can Choose Not to be AfraidNovel Explores Road to Radicalization
Belief is a novel by Mayank Bhatt, a Mumbai-born resident of Toronto. It tells the story of the son of Indian immigrants to Canada who cooperates with terrorists to identify Canadian places to bomb, in…
View More Novel Explores Road to RadicalizationMonsef Birthplace a Non-issue
I feel compelled to comment on the case of Maryam Monsef, Liberal MP and federal Minister of Democratic Institutions, who has been caught up in a story about the location of her birth 32 years…
View More Monsef Birthplace a Non-issueAuthor Revisits Canada’s Mission in Afghanistan
More than 160 Canadians lost their lives, more than 1,000 were wounded, and the government spent over $20 billion during Canada’s mission in Afghanistan. Stephen M. Saideman, a scholar and the Paterson Chair in International…
View More Author Revisits Canada’s Mission in AfghanistanMP Monsef Proves Afghan Women’s Strength, Ability
Her story reads like a movie script. Twenty years ago, Maryam Monsef fled the brutal rule of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan and now, two decades later, she has become the first Muslim to be…
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Despite Paris’ Misery, Trudeau Mustn’t Fall into Harper’s Old Traps
In politics as in life, you always meet the devil on a curve. For Justin Trudeau, mass murder in Paris is his trial by ordeal as prime minister. It didn’t take very long. At the…
View More Despite Paris’ Misery, Trudeau Mustn’t Fall into Harper’s Old TrapsUnderstanding Human Smugglers
Charon, in Greek mythology, was a grim and sombre ferryman who transported souls of the newly dead across the river Acheron to the Underworld. Those who did not pay a silver coin for the ride…
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