Aliaa Dakroury
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Dr. Dakroury taught at the University of Ottawa鈥檚 Department of Communication from 2008 to 2012; at Carleton University鈥檚 School of Journalism and Communication from 2005 to 2010; and Departments of Sociology and Anthropology and Law from 2008 to 2011. She is the managing editor of the American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences. She is the author of Communication and Human Rights (2009), editor of The Right to Communicate: Historical Hopes, Global Debates, and Future Premises (2009), editor of The Right to Communicate, a special issue of Global Media Journal — American Edition (Fall 2008), and co-editor of Introduction to Communication and Media Studies (2008). She is the winner of the Canadian Communication Association鈥檚 2005 Van Horne Award and has been nominated as an honorary expert by the Islamic Resource Bank (IRB), a joint project of the Minaret of Freedom Institute, the Association of Muslim Social Scientists, and the International Institute of Islamic Thought. Her publications appear in various journals, including the Journal of International Communication, Media Development: Journal of the World Association for Christian Communication, the American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture, the Journal of InterGroup Relations, the American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, the Global Media Journal — American Edition, and the Journal of Culture, Language, and Representation
- The Right to Communicate and Communication Rights
- Media and Ethics
- Communication Policy
- Historiography of Communication
- Cultural and media representation
- Media and Islam
Ph.D. Communication Studies (Carleton University, 2008)
M.A. Communication Studies (Carleton University, 2003)
B.A. Public Relations and Advertising (Cairo University, 1993)
- The intellectual origins of 鈥渃ommunication鈥 as a 鈥渉uman right鈥 in Islam.
The 27th Annual conference of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR)鈥 Media and Islam Working Group, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico-City, Mexico, 21-24 July, 2009. National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico-City, Mexico.
- 鈥淰eiling in CBC鈥檚 Little Mosque On the Prairie: Towards a reconstruction of the Muslim femininity in the Canadian media鈥
Part of a pre-organized panel by Aliaa Dakroury titled: Media, Women, and Representations, the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, the Canadian Communication Association Annual Conference, Carleton University, 23-31 May, 2009.
- 鈥淚ntegration or Segregation? The Controversy of the Al-Jazeera in the Canadian Public Policy Terrain鈥
At a workshop titled 鈥淚ntegration, Securitization & Global Communication: Canadian Public Policy and Canadian Arab Immigrants鈥. Organized in collaboration with the Centre for International Governance and Innovation. 23-25 January 2009, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. (2009)
- 鈥淭owards A Theory of Humanism in the Arab Cinema: The Intellectual Influence of Edward Said on Youssef Chahin鈥檚 Cinema.鈥
Counterpoints: Edward Said鈥檚 Legacy Conference (October 31- November 2, 2008), University of Ottawa- Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. Iskandar, A. & Dakroury, A. (2008).
- 鈥淭owards A Dawn of Knitting an Inter-Cultural Dialogue with Islam in the Canadian Media: An Analysis of the CBC鈥檚 Sitcom Little Mosque On The Prairie鈥
The 37th Annual Conference of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists of North America(AMSS): Crossing Boundaries: Mobilizing Faith, Diversity and Dialogue. 24-25 October 2008, The Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, USA.
- 鈥淭he Right to Communicate Story: The Canadian Pioneering Contribution.鈥
International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR)鈥擯articipatory Communication Research Group. July 20 – 25, 2008, Stockholm University and the Department of Media, Journalism and Communication Stockholm, Sweden.
- 鈥淏logs and the Right to Communicate: Towards Creating A Space-Less Public Sphere鈥
International Symposium on Technology and Society, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), June 2008, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.4- 6, 2008, University of British Columbia. Dakroury, A. & Birdsall, W. (2008).
- 鈥淒irect from 鈥楬omeland鈥 to Home: Arab Disaporic Media and the Passage of 鈥淎l-Watan鈥 to Canada.鈥
The Middle East Studies Association (MESA) 41st Annual Conference, November 17-20, 2007. Montr茅al, Canada. Dakroury, A. & Eid, M. (2007).
- 鈥淐BC鈥檚 Little Mosque On the Prairie: Bridging the 鈥淥ther鈥 in Canada鈥.
Canadian Communication Association Annual conference: Building Bridges: Making Public Knowledge 鈥 Making Knowledge Public. May, 30- June 1, 2007. University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada.
- 鈥淭elecommission Studies (1969-1971): A History of communication as a human right in Canada.鈥
Canadian Initiative in Law, Culture and the Humanities, 2nd Biennial Conference on Law, Culture and Humanities. October 12-14, 2007. Carleton University, Ottawa.
- 鈥淭he right to communicate: A new horizon for Communication Studies鈥
The Future of Communication Studies: Toward A Critical Remapping Of The Field. The Annual Conference of the Communication Graduate Caucus of Carleton University, March 15-16, 2007, Ottawa, Canada.
- 鈥淎 Right to Insult?! The Danish Cartoons Controversy and the Right to Communicate in Islam鈥.
The 2nd Canadian conference of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists (AMSS)-Canada. Islam: Tradition and Modernity. Organized by The Association of Muslim Social Scientists (AMSS)-Canada & The Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, November 4th, 2006. Toronto, University of Toronto.
- 鈥淎nti- and counter-terrorism: Snagging the practice of a human Right to Communicate.鈥
The 4th International Conference on Information, Information鈥06, and the 4th Irish Conference on the Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science and Information Technology鈥06, MFCSIT鈥06, Information-MFCSIT鈥06 (August 1-5, 2006). University College Cork, Cork, Ireland: International Information Institute, Tokyo, Japan and National University of Ireland, Cork, Ireland.
- 鈥淚nstant World and the Right to communicate in Canada.鈥
The 26th Annual Conference of Canadian Communication Association (June 1-3, 2006). York University, Toronto, Canada: Congress of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. (2006)
- 鈥淎 right to be 鈥渄ifferent鈥: Diversity and The right to communication in Islam,鈥
The fifth International Conference on Diversity in Organisations, Communities and nations. Institute of Ethnic Administrators, June-July 2005, China.
- 鈥淧atterns of Arabic Taste and Popular Culture: A Social Reading of Arabic advertising,鈥
The 14th Annual KSU Cultural Studies Conference, Visual Culture: Image Imagination Ideology. March 2005, Kansas State University.
- 鈥淧luralism and the Right to Communicate in the Canadian 鈥楳ulti- Culturalism鈥,鈥
the 18th Biennial Conference of the Canadian Ethnic Studies Association: Toward Social Justice: Illusions, Realities, Possibilities, October 2005, Ottawa, Canada.
- 鈥淲hose right to communicate: Al-Jazeera or CRTC?鈥
The 25th Annual Conference of Canadian Association of Communication, June 2005, University of Western Ontario, Ontario.
- 鈥淰eiling Canada: Niqab vs. Hijab and the Question of Accommodation鈥.
Women鈥檚 Worlds 2011 conference: Inclusions, exclusions, and seclusions: Living in a globalized world. Panel: Representations of Muslim and 鈥淒iasporic鈥 Women in Western Society and Pop Culture. University of Ottawa, 3-7 July 2011.
- 鈥淨uestioning the Universality: Disability Rights between Legal Discourses and Policy Narratives鈥.
Communication and Human Rights, panel for 鈥淐ommunication Technology and Policy鈥 section IAMCR 28th Annual Conference, Communication and Citizenship: Rethinking Crisis and Change. Braga, Portugal, 18-22 July, 2010. Hoffmann, J. & Dakroury, A, (2010).
- 鈥淧rivacy and the Right 鈥楴ot鈥 To Communicate in the Canadian Media Policy鈥
Canadian Communication Association Annual Conference, Connected Understanding, Concordia University, Montr茅al, 1鈥3June, 2010.
- 鈥淭he Right to participate for 鈥渁ll鈥? A provisional understanding of the disabled rights to communicate!鈥
The 27th Annual conference of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR)鈥 Participatory Communication section, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico-City, Mexico, 21-24 July, 2009. Dakroury, A. & Hoffmann, J. (2009).
- 鈥淎 right to 鈥渉ear鈥 and be 鈥渉eard鈥: Communication as a human right in the Canadian communications public policies鈥
The 27th Annual conference of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR)鈥 Round Table on 鈥淐ommunication as a human right鈥: Policy challenges, public interest narratives and visions for the future, Jointly organized by the Working Group on Global Media Policy and the Emerging Scholars Network, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico-City, Mexico, 21-24 July, 2009.
- Ontario Leading Women Building Communities Award
2011 - Van Horne Prize in the Canadian Communication Association Conference
2005