Concordia University's Thinking Out Loud series and the International Press Institute present: Threats, Risks, Freedoms: A Conversation About Journalism and Human Rights Featuring Amberin Zaman, veteran Turkish journalist and analyst and Kyle Matthews, Senior Deputy Director, Montreal Institute for Genocide Studies, in conversation with Susan Sachs, Foreign Editor for The Globe and Mail. Participants: Amberin Zaman has covered Turkey for The Economist for the past 17 years and was a regular contributor to The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times and The Daily Telegraph. She is a columnist for one of Turkey’s leading digital news platforms, Diken and also for Al-Monitor, with a focus on the Kurds, the Syrian conflict and Turkish Armenian reconciliation. Kyle Matthews is the Senior Deputy Director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies at Concordia University and a Fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. His work focuses on human rights, international security, the Responsibility to Protect, global threats, and social media and technology. At Concordia, he founded the Digital Mass Atrocity Prevention Lab and the Raoul Wallenberg Legacy of Leadership project. Susan Sachs is an award-winning journalist whose career has spanned the globe. Before joining the Globe as its Kabul correspondent, she was posted in Istanbul, Baghdad and Cairo by The New York Times and in Cairo and Moscow by Newsday. Her reporting has been honoured with prizes from, among others, the Overseas Press Club and Investigative Reporters and Editors in the United States.
