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QUARTZ--Uber is on the front line of women’s rights in Saudi Arabia

BY GHADA ALSHARIF (FGJ ‘17) - Six years ago, a shaky video posted to YouTube showed 37-year-old women’s rights activist Manal Al-Sharif, wearing an abaya, navigating the streets of Kohber in Saudi Arabia. Speaking into the camera, she says in Arabic: “You’ll find a woman who has a phD, [or] a professor in a university… and she doesn’t know how to drive. We want change in the country.” It was a powerful protest message, one that ultimately landed Al-Sharif in jail. Not for her words, but because she said them from behind the wheel of a car. READ MORE

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TVO - Reporting on the Alt-Right in Canada

INTERVIEW WITH GHADA ALSHARIF (FGJ ‘17) - Munk School of Global Affairs journalism fellow Ghada Alsharif joins The Agenda to discuss her experience reporting on the alt-right in Canada and the story of former CSIS operative Grant Bristow, who spent six years undercover with Canada's neo-Nazi movement in the late 1980s and early '90s. WATCH HERE

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CIUT 89.5 FM – TIME ZONES

Time Zones is the radio program and podcast produced by the fellows in the Fellowship in Global Journalism at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs. Travel the globe with our correspondents based around the world and here in Toronto. Each episode is organized around a theme. This week, the fellows explored the theme in/out. They tell stories of falling in and out of love, of a neo-nazi who got out of the movement, and the heartbreaking position a mother found herself in when her son was killed in a car accident. This week's show was hosted by Ghada Al Sharif and Melissa Tessler (FGJ ‘17) LISTEN HERE

The logo for Munk School FGJ-Timeszones was designed by Kristina Ljubanovic (FGJ ‘16).

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CBC RADIO - Alt Right

INTERVIEW WITH GHADA ALSHARIF (FGJ ‘17) - Donald Trump's win has emboldened the so-called "Alt-Right" movement. And it's not just in the U-S. The man charged with six counts of murder in the Québec City mosque attack...also expressed support for far-right and nationalist ideologies. Ghada Alsharif is a fellow in global journalism at the Munk School of Global Affairs. She has looked into the so-called Alt-right in Canada. LISTEN HERE