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 the author and co-author of several works on Arab media, most prominently an analysis of the Arab satellite station

Al Jazeera Al Jazeera ( ar, الجزيرة, translit-std=DIN, translit=al-jazīrah, , "The Island") is a state-owned Arabic-language international radio and TV broadcaster of Qatar. It is based in Doha and operated by the media conglomerate Al Jazeera ...

. 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 Social Anthropology and

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from Dalhousie University in Halifax,

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. He later earned a masters in

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from Purdue University Calumet in Hammond, Indiana 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 ''Al-Masry Al-Youm'' ( ar, المصري اليوم ', , meaning ''The Egyptian Today'') is an Egyptian privately owned daily newspaper that was first published in June 2004. It is published in Arabic as is its website, ''almasryalyoum.com''. An ...

'' 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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. He is currently teaches Global Communication at

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in Canada and is a co-editor of 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 on a ...

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 pu ...

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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