{{Short description|British scholar}} {{BLP primary sources|date=June 2011}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2020}} '''Adel Iskandar''' (aka '''Adel Iskandar Farag''') (born 15 March 1977) is a British-born Middle East media scholar, postcolonial theorist, analyst,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.standaard.be/artikel/detail.aspx?artikelid=HJ3CH1G1|title=Egyptenaren slaan rood alarm: Onvrede over militaire junta groeit|last=Cock|first=Jorn de|date=9 July 2011|work=De Standaard|accessdate=16 July 2011}}</ref> and academic. He is currently an Associate Professor of Global Communication at Simon 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 station Al Jazeera,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/11/12/arab_media|title=Fallujah anticlimax|last=Boehlert|first=Eric|date=12 November 2004|work=Salon.com|accessdate=16 July 2011}}</ref> digital dissidence, global communication theory, and decolonization.
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 master's degree in Communications from Purdue University Calumet in Hammond, Indiana and a PhD from the University of Kentucky.
He proposes the concept of "contextual objectivity" as a critique of media's coverage of war.<ref>{{cite journal|last=el-Nawawy & Iskandar |title=The Minotaur of 'Contextual Objectivity': War coverage and the pursuit of accuracy with appeal |journal=Transnational Broadcasting Journal |date=Fall–Winter 2002 |volume=9 |url=http://www.tbsjournal.com/Archives/Fall02/Iskandar.html |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120211102357/http://www.tbsjournal.com/Archives/Fall02/Iskandar.html |archivedate=11 February 2012 |df=dmy }}</ref> 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 Georgetown University.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://articles.philly.com/2011-02-28/news/28637707_1_moammar-gadhafi-diaspora-fortress|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110310142126/http://articles.philly.com/2011-02-28/news/28637707_1_moammar-gadhafi-diaspora-fortress|url-status=dead|archive-date=10 March 2011|title=Twitter and other services create cracks in Gadhafi's media fortress|last=Timpane|first=John|date=28 February 2011|work=The Philadelphia Inquirer|accessdate=16 July 2011}}</ref>
Iskandar is a co-editor of prominent e-zine Jadaliyya.
==Works== *Author: ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20121022104710/http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Politics/ComparativePolitics/MiddleEast/?view=usa 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)'', {{ISBN|0-5202-5890-8}} *Co-editor: "Media Evolution on the Eve of the Arab Spring (2014)" Palgrave Macmillan, {{ISBN|9781137403148}} *Co-author: ''Al-Jazeera: The Story of the Network that is Rattling Governments and Redefining Modern Journalism (2003)'', {{ISBN|0-8133-4149-3}}
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==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20120529072900/http://www.egyptindependent.com/staff/adel-iskandar "Adel Iskandar"], ''Egypt Independent'' *[http://ambassadors.net/archives/issue19/opinions2.htm From Paris to Cairo: Resistance of the Unacculturated] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20060329135848/http://www.tbsjournal.com/Iskandar.html Is Al-Jazeera Alternative? Mainstreaming Alterity and Assimilating Discourses of Dissent] *[http://www.arabmediasociety.org/index.php?article=226&p=0 Lines in the Sand: Problematizing Arab Media in the Post-Taxonomic Era] *[http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520258907 Edward Said: A Legacy of Emancipation and Representation]
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