Kiana Montakhab

ILLUSTRATION: a lecture hall, with students using their electronic devices (laptops, and tablets). Some are online shopping, some are one social media websites, and others are messaging their friends. While a professor is lecturing in front of the class.
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Our devices aren’t ruining education, but they’re not helping either

Peak Web July 24, 2025

By: Kiana Montakhab, SFU Student Next time you’re in class, take a moment to look around you. Is anyone actually paying attention? Or are we all half-engaged, aimlessly clicking through tabs on our laptops and scrolling through our phones? Is the poor professor up there lecturing to a sea of blank stares, faces dimly lit by the glow of screens? It makes you wonder — are we truly present or just occupying space? To some, these behaviours may look like a lack of discipline. But to me, they reflect a deeper reality — students are adapting to a world where…

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This is a photo of a Western Sahara flag with the blue sky in the background.
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The intersections of colonialism and the climate crisis in Western Sahara

Peak Web February 18, 2025

By: Kiana Montakhab, SFU Student On January 17, Embark Sustainability, the Centre for Comparative Muslim Studies, and Spheres of Influence e-zine hosted a presentation titled “Western Sahara is a Climate Justice Issue” on the Burnaby campus. The talk focused on…

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