Slowly, over the past 12 years, the landmark book – critical of Islamic fundamentalism and its treatment of women – has become increasingly available in Muslim countries. A year after it first came out, Oxford University Press released it as part of its millennium series in Pakistan. Last year, it was translated for Korean audiences (see YFile, Oct. 6, 2010).

, which won the Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award in sociology in 2000, was translated and released in Indonesia by the Jakarta-based International Centre for Islam and Pluralism and publisher LKiS Yogyakarta.

Moghissi, who teaches  women’s and equity studies, couldn't be more pleased about her book's release in Indonesia, which has blossomed into democracy since the overthrow of President Suharto in 1998. “Indonesia is the largest Muslim country on Earth," she points out. “Obviously, the ideas remain current and of concern if publishers are making available a book that is critical of fundamentalism and of its treatment of women."

Neighbouring Malaysia long ago banned Moghissi’s book. “The fact that it is being published next door in Indonesia makes me even happier,” she says. No doubt copies will filter across the Strait of Malacca.

In her ongoing effort to illuminate the experience of Muslims in the West, Moghissi on the subject, .

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The launch for Writing Justice (Multicultural History Society of Ontario, 2011) will take place on Thursday, April 14, from 5:30 to 7:30pm at the Columbus Centre, 901 Lawrence Ave. W., Toronto. Everyone is welcome to attend. Light refreshments will be served.

The book was published in recognition of the United Nations General Assembly’s proclamation of 2011 as the .

“I want the book to serve as both an historical example of ethno-racial media in the tradition of Mary Ann Shadd and Henry Bibb, and as a critical analysis of some of the most important issues impacting the lives of people of colour in the last decade,” says Foster.

The aim of the International Year for People of African Descent is to strengthen national actions and regional and international cooperation for the benefit of people of African descent in relation to: their full enjoyment of economic, cultural, social, civil and political rights; their participation and integration in all political, economic, social and cultural aspects of society; and the promotion of a greater knowledge of, and respect for, their diverse heritage and culture.

Left: Lorne Foster

“Dr. Foster illustrates how, over the greater part of a decade, he has used his analytical skills and erudition as weapons for progressive social change. Despite covering a very wide range of topics – from leadership, human rights and race in the workplace through the language of culture and power, social problems in the city, health, urban poverty, and the immigration system – Dr. Foster keeps a steady eye on the roots, reasons and results of the issues he analyzes and provides a picture of the vitality of the communities, the hurdles they face and the efforts made to overcome these hurdles,” says Carl Thorpe, executive director of the .

Foster has written more than 200 articles for community and knowledge mobilization publications and was nominated for two media human rights awards, “for alerting, informing and sensitizing the public with regard to the nature and value of human rights in Canada” in 2001.

He is the author of and the co-editor of the forthcoming Balancing Competing Human Rights Claims in a Diverse Society, published by the .

His next book will deal with the foreign credentials gap in Canada.

For more information, call the at 416-979-2973. Attendees are asked to register in advance at mhso.mail@utoronto.ca.

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The teach-in will take place Thursday, Feb. 10, at 2:30pm at 2183 Vari Hall, Keele campus, with 91��ɫ history Professor Thabit Abdullah, political science Professor , equity studies professors and Nadia Habib.

Abdullah is the author of , and the co-editor of .

Right: Nadia Habib

A human rights lecturer, Habib was one of the top 10 finalists in TVOntario’s 2010 Big Ideas Best Lecturer Competition. Her research focus is on Egyptian cultural life, but she has also directed, produced and performed in live theatre, and is a poet and activist. She continues to be involved in creative projects and wrote and participated in the narration of A Hot Sand Filled Wind, the third instalment of b.h. Yael's film, .

Left: Haideh Moghissi

Moghissi is the author of , which was translated and reprinted in 2010 by a South Korean publisher, and co-editor of , which explores issues of race and ethnicity, culture, media, gender and migration. In 2009, she published a monograph, , co-authored by 91��ɫ political science professors Rahnema and Mark Goodman.

Right: Saeed Rahnema

Rahnema won the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities’ Leadership in Faculty Teaching Award in 2007, the 91��ɫ-Wide Teaching Excellence Award in 2004 and was named most popular professor at 91��ɫ four years in a row by Maclean’s Magazine's Guide to Canadian Universities. He is author of , Re-birth of Social Democracy in Iran (Baran Books Verlag, 1996) and co-author of Selected Communities of Islamic Cultures in Canada: A Statistical Profile, Diaspora, Islam and Gender Project (2005).

The event is sponsored by the and the Middle Eastern Student Association at 91��ɫ U.

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Ontario nurses are experiencing racism on the job to the point they are segregated into certain units within hospitals and onto certain shifts, wrote The Peterborough Examiner July 15, in a story about research by 91��ɫ Professor Tania Das Gupta.

Visible minorities are especially vulnerable, Das Gupta, chair of 91��ɫ’s Department of Equity Studies, said.

Das Gupta revealed her findings in a book earlier this month after surveying nurses through the Ontario Nurses’ Association, drawing on 593 responses from nurses across the province, 18 in-depth interviews and arbitration cases. “We have as a society reached a point where it’s not acceptable anymore to use racial slurs or do name-calling,” Das Gupta told Sun Media yesterday. “Racism is not too blatant anymore...so the way in which it manifests itself is very systemic and subtle.

“At the end of the day, what you find is that it is nurses of colour who get disadvantaged.”

In her book, Real Nurses and Others: Racism in Nursing, Das Gupta details the survey found 41 per cent of nurses that responded said they had been made to feel uncomfortable because of their race, colour or ethnicity, including 82 per cent of black nurses, 80 per cent of Asian nurses, 50 per cent of South Asian nurses and 57 per cent of Central or South American nurses.

Das Gupta’s study also found 25 per cent of white nurses said they had been made to feel uncomfortable because of their ethnicity or religion.

The racism ranges from comments about accents and physical attributes to a failure to recognize a nurse’s skills and knowledge, she said. That racism can translate into who works where in a hospital, Das Gupta said, with more minorities being relegated to less desirable units and work hours.

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