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Amira Elghawaby,
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Former rabble.ca board member
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Amira Elghawaby is an award-winning journalist and human rights advocate. Along with frequent appearances on Canadian and international news networks, Amira has written and produced stories and commentary for CBC Radio, the Ottawa Citizen, the Toronto Star, the Literary Review of Canada, and The Globe and Mail. Amira spent five years promoting the civil liberties of Canadian Muslims as human rights officer and later, as director of communications, at the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) between 2012 to the fall of 2017. In 2016, she led a project with New Canadian Media creating Canada’s first Ethnic Media and Diversity Style Guide. Amira obtained an honours degree in Journalism and Law from Carleton University in 2001. She is currently involved with several initiatives to promote civic engagement in diverse communities, including as a founding board member of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network, the Silk Road Institute and as an adviser to the Muslim Youth Fellowship in Toronto.
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