Adel Iskandar (aka Adel Iskandar Farag) (born 15 March 1977) is a

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media scholar,

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theorist, analyst, and academic. He is currently an Associate Professor of Global Communication at

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in Canada. The author and co-author of several works on Arabic language media, Iskandar's work has contributed both to the political economy of communication and the cultural impact of media. His most prominent works deal with analyses of the Arabic satellite station

Al Jazeera Al Jazeera Media Network (AJMN; , ) is a private-media conglomerate headquartered in Wadi Al Sail, Doha, funded in part by the government of Qatar. The network's flagship channels include Al Jazeera Arabic and Al Jazeera English, which pro ...

, digital dissidence, global communication theory, and decolonization. Born to an Egyptian family of physicians in

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, he grew up in

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, escaping the Iraqi invasion and the 1991

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. At the age of 16, he moved to

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where he earned his degree in

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and

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from

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in Halifax,

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. He later earned a master's degree in

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from Purdue University Calumet in

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and a PhD from the

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. He proposes the concept of " contextual objectivity" as a critique of media's coverage of war. He wrote a regular column for Egyptian independent newspaper '' Almasry Alyoum'' during and shortly after the revolution and taught in the Communication, Culture and Technology (CCT) program as well as the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS) at

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. Iskandar is a co-editor of prominent e-zine

Jadaliyya ''Jadaliyya'' (" dialectic") is an independent ezine founded in 2010 by the Arab Studies Institute (ASI) to cover the Arab World and the broader Middle East. It publishes articles in Arabic, French, English and Turkish, and is run primarily o ...

Works

*Author:
Egypt In Flux: Essays on an Unfinished Revolution
(forthcoming, 2013)'' *Co-editor: ''Mediating the Arab Uprisings (2012)'' Tadween Publishing. *Co-editor: ''Edward Said: A Legacy of Emancipation and Representation (2010)'', *Co-editor: "Media Evolution on the Eve of the Arab Spring (2014)" Palgrave Macmillan, *Co-author: ''Al-Jazeera: The Story of the Network that is Rattling Governments and Redefining Modern Journalism (2003)'',

References

External links

"Adel Iskandar"
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Egypt Independent ''Egypt Independent'' is an online newspaper that formerly published a weekly 24-page English-language edition of the Egyptian newspaper, '' Al-Masry Al-Youm''. History On 24 November 2011, the first print edition of ''Egypt Independent'' was p ...

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From Paris to Cairo: Resistance of the Unacculturated
* ttp://www.arabmediasociety.org/index.php?article=226&p=0 Lines in the Sand: Problematizing Arab Media in the Post-Taxonomic Erabr>Edward Said: A Legacy of Emancipation and Representation
1977 births Academics from Edinburgh British mass media scholars Scottish people of Egyptian descent Egyptian writers Dalhousie University alumni Kuwaiti writers Living people University of Kentucky alumni Purdue University alumni Georgetown University faculty {{Egypt-writer-stub