Emerging Canadian journalists Rukhsar Ali and Andre Joseph Cordeiro named inaugural Fellows

TORONTO, Oct. 8, 2024 Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) is proud to announce Palestinian photojournalist Samar Abu Elouf as the second recipient of the 2024 International Press Freedom Award. She is being honoured for breaking traditional gender roles and paving new paths for women in Gaza.

Relaunching February 22, the acclaimed interview podcast will highlight boundary-breaking Muslim voices like NASA scientist Farah Alibay and 'Little Mosque on the Prairie' creator Zarqa Nawaz

In 2019, Farah Nasser was a speaker at TEDxDonMills in Toronto, Ontario.

In 2019, Amira Elghawaby was a speaker for TEDxOttawa in Ottawa, Ontario.

On July 12, 2019 Mogadishu-based Radio Dalsan reported that Somali Canadian journalist Hodan Nalayeh, 43, founder of Integration TV, was killed along with her husband in an attack on a hotel in the port city of Kismayo, Somalia that has been claimed by terrorist group Al-Shabaab. She leaves behind two young sons.

In the 2018 Municipal Elections in British Columbia, Pakistani Canadian podcaster Abubakar Khan ran as an independent to join the Vancouver City Council.

A recent CBC Fifth Estate episode about polygamy among Muslim Canadians and its accompanying article has sparked online debate among Muslims.

You can watch the documentary online below.

CityNews Toronto reporter Ginella Massa will be speaking at the season premiere of the Women of Influence Evening Series on Wednesday September 6 in Toronto. She will be exploring the topic of Breaking Barriers: How to Defy Expectations and Develop the Career of Your Dreams.

Muslim Link interviewed Ginella about becoming a role model for so many Muslim women and how her experience as an “outsider” within Muslim Canadian communities is an advantage when it comes to doing a better job of covering new stories that explore the complexity of the Muslim Canadian experience.