Adel Iskandar

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Adel Iskandar (aka Adel Iskandar Farag) (born March 15, 1977) is a Middle East media scholar, postcolonial theorist and media reform activist. He is the author and co-author of several seminal works on Arab media, most prominently the first major analysis of the Arab satellite station Al Jazeera.

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 Communication from Purdue University Calumet in Hammond, Indiana.

He proposes the concept of "contextual objectivity" as a critique of media's coverage of war.

[edit] Works

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

• From Paris to Cairo: Resistance of the Unacculturated

• Is Al-Jazeera Alternative: Mainstreaming Alterity and Assmiliating Discourses of Dissent

• Lines in the Sand: Problematizing Arab Media in the Post-Taxonomic Era