Canada and Minister Monsef

September 28, 2016

U of T News recently spoke to Aisha Ahmad, an assistant professor in the department of Political Science about the recent controversy surrounding revelations that federal cabinet minister Maryam Monsef was born in Iran, not Afghanistan as originally thought. Ahmad is the director of the Islam and Politics Initiative and a senior researcher at the Global Justice Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs. Her forthcoming book with Oxford University Press, Jihad & Co.: Black Markets and Islamist Power, explores the relationship between clandestine business and Islamist movements in civil wars across the Muslim world. The article is available here.