Adel Iskandar

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Adel Iskandar (aka Adel Iskandar Farag) (born 15 March 1977) is a British-born Middle East media scholar, postcolonial theorist, analyst,^[1] 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.^[2] His latest work is an edited collection of essays entitled Edward Said: A Legacy of Emancipation and Representation on the late Palestinian-American intellectual and literary critic. ^[3]

Born to an Egyptian family of physicians in Edinburgh, Scotland, he grew up in Kuwait, escaping the Iraqi invasion and the 1991 Persian Gulf War. At the age of 16, he moved to Canada where he earned his degree in Social Anthropology and Biology from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He later earned a masters in Communications from Purdue University Calumet in Hammond, Indiana.

He proposes the concept of "contextual objectivity" as a critique of media's coverage of war.^{[citation needed]} He writes a regular column for Egyptian independent newspaper Almasry Alyoum, and works at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University.^[4]

Works

• Co-author: Al-Jazeera: The Story of the Network that is Rattling Governments and Redefining Modern Journalism (2003), ISBN 0-8133-4149-3

External links

• From Paris to Cairo: Resistance of the Unacculturated
• Is Al-Jazeera Alternative? Mainstreaming Alterity and Assimilating Discourses of Dissent
• Lines in the Sand: Problematizing Arab Media in the Post-Taxonomic Era
• Edward Said: A Legacy of Emancipation and Representation

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