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Adel Iskandar (akaAdel Iskandar Farag) (born 15 March 1977) is aBritish-bornMiddle East media scholar,postcolonial theorist, analyst,[1] and academic. He is currently an Associate Professor of Global Communication atSimon Fraser University 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 stationAl Jazeera,[2] digital dissidence, global communication theory, and decolonization.
Born to an Egyptian family of physicians inEdinburgh, Scotland, he grew up inKuwait, escaping the Iraqi invasion and the 1991Persian Gulf War. At the age of 16, he moved toCanada where he earned his degree inSocial Anthropology andBiology fromDalhousie University inHalifax,Nova Scotia. He later earned a master's degree inCommunications fromPurdue University Calumet inHammond, Indiana and a PhD from theUniversity of Kentucky.
He proposes the concept of "contextual objectivity" as a critique of media's coverage of war.[3] He wrote a regular column for Egyptian independent newspaperAlmasry 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) atGeorgetown University.[4]
Iskandar is a co-editor of prominent e-zineJadaliyya.
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