Aziz Choudry

Aziz Choudry (23 June 1966 – 26 May 2021), originally from New Zealand, was a scholar and Canadian activist and the former coordinator of GATT Watchdog, a Canadian non-governmental organization that monitored the activities of the World Trade Organization.

He was a prolific scholar-activist internationally recognized for his scholarship and solidarity with migrant, Indigenous, Palestinian, and anti-colonial struggles. Choudry was an associate professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University and an organizer of popular education initiatives through the Immigrant Workers Centre in Montreal. [1] He was an editor for Interface: A Journal for and About Social Movements between 2011 and 2016.[2]

He died in Johannesburg on 26 May 2021.[3]

  1. ^ McGill University, Faculty of Education. "In Memoriam". McGill University - Faculty of Education. McGill University. Retrieved 27 March 2023.
  2. ^ "In Memoriam: Abdul Aziz Choudry (1966 – 2021)" (PDF). Interface: a journal for and about social movements. July 2021.
  3. ^ Wong, Andrea (16 June 2021). "Aziz Choudry (1966-2021): 'An exceptional individual and a real intellectual in every sense of the word'". Concordia.