Ezzat fattah biography of barack

  • Ezzat A. Fattah, PhD, is the founder of the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, where he is professor emeritus.
  • Ezzat A. Fattah served for several years as the vice-president of the International Society of Criminology and is a foreign honorary member of the Japanese.
  • Ezzat A. Fattah.

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    A New Era

    For Karim Ismaili, stepping into the role of president of Eastern Connecticut State University is an honor filled with excitement and promise.

    Midway through his inaugural year, Ismaili is struck by the overwhelming positivity and support of the Eastern community. He is eager to channel this energy to not only advance the University’s public liberal arts mission, but also to assess and guide its evolution into a new era.

    Ismaili became Eastern’s seventh president on July 31 after nearly three decades of leadership experience in higher education. For him, the presidency is not about personal achievement, but about what the role can do to serve students and assert the importance of public higher education in today’s world. He wakes up each day propelled by the opportunity to help shape the future of Eastern.

    “What an incredible opportunity I have to be the president here,” he says. “Every morning I wake up and I pinch myself. I’m

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    The Need for a Critical Victimology

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      Sympathy on a sliding scale

      Published Feb 15, 2011  •  Last updated 14 years ago  •  3 minute read

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      Murdered children, slain police officers and brutally culled huskies. Our hearts go out to these victims, and yet we barely bat an eye when a prison fånge is beaten to death or a prostitute’s body turns up on the side of the road. Ezzat Fattah, one of Canada’s pioneers in victims studies, wants more of an equal-opportunity response to victims. He gave a talk called “The Injustice of a Normative Hierarchy of Victims” at Mount Royal University in Calgary last week. The Post’s Sarah Boesveld spoke with him about society’s sliding scale of response to victims.

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