Michelle Shephard is a celebrated journalist and author, who has covered issues of terrorism and civil rights for many years. She’s reported from more than twenty countries, including Somalia, Yemen, Syria, and Pakistan and went behind the wire at the US Naval Prison, Guantanamo Bay, over two dozen times. In our next cover story, she revisits the Toronto 18 terrorism plot, the Islamophobia that followed, the need for deradicalization programs, and one man’s hard path to redemption.
“It feels significant, nearly two decades after his arrest, to be writing a story about Zakaria Amara the repentant terrorist, since I had been the first to introduce Canadians to Amara the terrorism suspect.”
