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Mukbil delves into fighting terrorism and taking on institutional racism in new book

Plus, Liberal MP Andy Fillmore pays tribute to the first female special assistant to a cabinet minister Carol Young in the House, and former interim privacy commissioner Chantal Bernier to deliver speech at the University of Ottawa on the boundaries of privacy and the public interest surrounding data.

Huda Mukbil was a senior intelligence officer at the Canadian Security Intelligence Service for 16 years and she was often the only racialized person at the table. Agent of Change: My Life Fighting Terrorists, Spies, and Institutional Racism is published by McGill-Queen’s University Press.Photograph courtesy of Huda Mukbil

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BY MIKE LAPOINTE

April 5, 2023

Huda Mukbil, the first Black Arab-Canadian Muslim woman to join CSIS who was at the forefront of the fight against terrorism after 9/11, just wrote a book, Agent of Change: My Life Fighting Terrorists, Spies, and Institutional Racism. It promises t...

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