Welcome to the International Student Centre

Spotlight On... Convocation Party '09

TODAY!

Date: November 20th; Time: 4:00 - 6:00pm
Location: ISC, 33 St. George Street

We would like to extend our sincere congratulations to international students who have graduated in 2009! To celebrate this important milestone in your personal and career development, the International Student Centre and the Office of Alumni Affairs would like to invite international students who graduated in 2009 to a convocation party at the International Student Centre on Friday, November 20th.

Please come and join us to celebrate your graduation, share success stories and network with graduates from diverse backgrounds. This is also a wonderful opportunity to learn more about the Alumni Affairs at U of T and continue to engage with the University no matter where you will be in the world.

If you would like to attend this event, please RSVP:  mike.white@utoronto.ca  or call 416-978-5645

 

 

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Updates And Notices

Applications For Study Permit Extension

Can now be completed online (using Citizenship and Immigration's MyCIC website)

 

SPECIAL SCREENING

THE SWEETEST EMBRACE:
RETURN TO AFGHANISTAN

Wednesday, November 25th
5:30pm
Cumberland Room, ISC
Q and A with Director Najeeb Mirza immediately after screening.

THE FILM
Soorgul and Amir were two of many Afghan children sent to
Tajikistan during the Soviet occupation of their country. When the
Soviet Union collapsed, the civil wars that broke out on both sides
of the border left the children stranded.
They were meant to be in Tajikistan only temporarily, to attend
school. Instead, they became stranded there, unable to leave the
country until Canada accepted them as refugees. It took 16 years
before they could return home.
In The Sweetest Embrace Soorgul and Amir return to their country
in search of their families. They travel in NGO vehicles (until it
becomes too dangerous), then local vans—and finally, when
rock-strewn roads become completely impassable, finish their
journey on foot through some of Afghanistan’s highest mountains.
But when their paths diverge, their futures become filled with
unexpected and unpredictable turns as they seek to find resolution
in their lives.
The Sweetest Embrace tells an intimate story set against one of
the world's most harsh and yet beautiful landscapes, in a land
where life has been shaped by war and hardship but where spirit
remains resilient.