CURRICULUM VITAE

 

Dr. Aliaa Dakroury

 

Lecturer, Carleton University

Loeb Building 476 (c), 1125 Colonel By Drive,

Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6 Canada.

Tel.: 1 (613) 823-2255, Cell: 1 (613) 325-2114

E-mail: adakrour@connect.carleton.ca

Web page: http://www.carleton.ca/sjc/facultystaff/dakroury.htm

 

 

Education:

 

- Ph.D. in Communication Studies (Carleton University, 2008).

- M.A. in Communication Studies (Carleton University, 2003).

- B.A. in Communication and Mass Media Studies, (Cairo University, 1993).

 

Awards:

 

Van Horne Prize Winner

·          June 2005. Paper: Whose right to communicate: Al-Jazeera or CRTC? This award was received at the 25th annual conference (June 2 - 4, 2005) of the Canadian Communication Association (CCA), University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.

 

Publications:

 

 

Books Authored:

 

·         Dakroury, A. (2009). Communication and Human Rights. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt Publishing.

·         Dakroury, A., Eid, M. & Kamalipour, Y. R. (2009). The Right to Communicate: Historical Hopes, Current Debates and Future Premises. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt Publishing.

·         Eid, M. & Dakroury, A. (2008). Introduction to Communication and Media Studies. Boston, MA: Pearson.

 

Book Chapters:

 

·         Dakroury, A. (Forthcoming 2009). “Towards Media Reconstruction of the Muslim Imaginary in Canada: The case of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Sitcom Little Mosque On the Prairie.” In Jasmin Zine (Ed.), Islam in the Hinterlands: A Canadian Muslim Studies Anthology. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.

·         Dakroury, A. (Forthcoming 2009). “Patterns of Arabic taste and popular culture: A social reading of Arabic advertising.” In Emmanuel C. Alozie (Ed.), Advertising in Developing and Emerging Economies: A Contextual Exploration. Aldershot, Hampshire: Gower Publishing Limited.

·         Iskandar, A. & Dakroury, A. (Forthcoming 2009). “Exile, Secularity and Youssef Chahine: Towards a Theory of Saidian Humanism in the Arab Cinema.” In May Al-Telmissany & Nahla Abdo (Eds.). Counterpoints: The Legacy of Edward Said. Routledge.

·         Dakroury, A. (Forthcoming 2009). “Integration or Segregation? The Controversy of the Al-Jazeera in the Canadian Public Policy Terrain”. In Jenna Hennebry and Bessma Momani (Eds), Re-Presenting Canadian-Arabs in a Globalized World: Racialization, Media, and Public Policy, Waterloo: International Migration Research Centre.

·         Dakroury, A. (2009). “The Baron of the Right to Communicate: Jean d’Arcy (1913-1983)”.  In Aliaa Dakroury, Mahmoud Eid, and Yahya R. Kamalipour (Eds.), The Right to Communicate: Historical Hopes, Current Debates and Future Premises. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt Publishing.

·         Dakroury, A., Eid, M. & Kamalipour, Y. (Eds.). (2009). “Introduction: The Right To Communicate”.  In Aliaa Dakroury, Mahmoud Eid, and Yahya R. Kamalipour (Eds.), The Right to Communicate: Historical Hopes, Current Debates and Future Premises. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt Publishing.

 

Journal Issues:

 

·         Eid, M. & Dakroury, A. (Eds.). (Forthcoming 2009). Veiling differences in Canada. Global Media Journal -- Canadian Edition, Fall 2009.

·         Dakroury, A. & Eid, M. (Eds.). (2008). The Right to Communicate: History, current debates, and future challenges. Global Media Journal -- American Edition, Fall 2008.

 

Journal Articles:

 

·         Dakroury, A. & Birdsall, W. (Forthcoming 2009). Blogs and the right to communicate: Towards creating a space-less public sphere? The Journal of Community Informatics.

·         Dakroury, A. (Forthcoming 2009). On-line airwaves and the right to communicate: The case of Al-Jazeera English. First Monday.

·         Dakroury, A. (2008). CBC’s Little Mosque on the Prairie: Just a ‘Little Masquerade’?.Media Development: Journal of the World Association for Christian Communication, 3/2008, 42-46.

·         Dakroury, A. (2006). Communication and the rise of early Islamic civilization (570-632 A.D.). American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, 23(2), 63-83.

·         Dakroury, A. (2006). Pluralism and the right to communicate in Canada. Media Development: Journal of the World Association for Christian Communication, LIII(1), 36-40.

·         Dakroury, A. (2006). The Arab-Canadian consumption of Disaporic media. Journal of International Communication, 12(2), 35-51.

·         Dakroury, A. (2006). Toward a philosophical approach of the hermeneutics of the Qur'an: To read, understand, think and reflect ... or just to follow. American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, 23(1), 15-34.

·         Dakroury, A. (2005). Representation of Afghan women rights in Canadian newspapers. Journal of Culture, Language, and Representation, 2, 59-73.

·         Dakroury, A. (2005). Who owns the medium owns the message? The ambiguity of the right to communicate in the age of convergence, Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture, 5(2). Available at: http://www.reconstruction.ws/052/drakoury.shtml.

·         Dakroury, A. (2004). Globalization and the right to communicate: Utopia or prison? Journal of InterGroup Relations, 31(3), 40-60.

 

·         Dakroury, A. (2005). Whose right to communicate: Al-Jazeera or CRTC? Global Media Journal -- American Edition, 4(7). (Winner of the Van Horne Prize for the Best Paper Presented in the Canadian Communication Association Conference, London-Ontario 2005).

·         Dakroury, A. & Birdsall, W. (2008). “Blogs and the right to communicate: Towards creating a space-less public sphere?” In International Symposium on Technology and Society proceedings. Fredericton, New Brunswick: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

·         Dakroury, A. (2006). “Anti- and counter-terrorism: Snagging the practice of a human Right to Communicate”. In Information-MFCSIT’06 (35-38). Cork, Ireland: National University of Ireland.

·         Dakroury, A. (2006). Review of Journalism, media and the challenge of human rights reporting. Journal of International Communication, 12(2), 101-103.

·         Dakroury, A. (2004). Review of the Human web: A bird's-eye view of world history. Journal of InterGroup Relations, 32(2), 86-92.

 

Conferences:

 

·         Dakroury, A. (Forthcoming 2009). “Veiling in CBC’s Little Mosque On the Prairie: Towards a reconstruction of the Muslim femininity in the Canadian media”. 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.

·         Dakroury, A. & Hoffmann, Julia. (Forthcoming 2009). “The Right to participate for “all”?  A provisional understanding of the disabled rights to communicate!” The 27th Annual conference of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR)— Participatory Communication section, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico-City, Mexico, 21-24 July, 2009.

·         Dakroury, A. (Forthcoming 2009). “A right to “hear” and be “heard”: Communication as a human right in the Canadian communications public policies”. The 27th Annual conference of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR)— Round Table on “Communication as a human right”: 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.

·         Dakroury, A. (Forthcoming 2009). “The intellectual origins of “communication” as a “human right” in Islam. The 27th Annual conference of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR)— Media and Islam Working Group, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico-City, Mexico, 21-24 July, 2009.

·         Dakroury, A. (Forthcoming 2009). “Present at the Creation: The Untold Chapter of the Right to Communicate Story... a “Canadian” version. The 27th Annual conference of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR)— International Communication Section, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico-City, Mexico, 21-24 July, 2009.

·         Dakroury, A. (2009). “Integration or Segregation? The Controversy of the Al-Jazeera in the Canadian Public Policy Terrain”. At a workshop titled “Integration, Securitization & Global Communication: Canadian Public Policy and Canadian Arab Immigrants’. Organized in collaboration with the Centre for International Governance and Innovation. 23-25 January 2009, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

·         Iskandar, A. & Dakroury, A. (2008). “Towards A Theory of Humanism in the Arab Cinema: The Intellectual Influence of Edward Said on Youssef Chahin’s Cinema.” Counterpoints: Edward Said’s Legacy Conference (October 31- November 2, 2008), University of Ottawa- Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.

·         Dakroury, A. (2008). “Towards A Dawn of Knitting an Inter-Cultural Dialogue with Islam in the Canadian Media: An Analysis of the CBC’s Sitcom Little Mosque On The Prairie”. 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.

·         Dakroury, A. & McIver, W. (2008). “The “Right to Communicate” and “Communication Rights” in Canada: The Case of the Telecommunications Policy Review Panel 2006.” International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR)— Communication Policy & Technology Group. July 20 - 25, 2008, Stockholm University and the Department of Media, Journalism and Communication Stockholm, Sweden.

·         Dakroury, A. (2008). “The Right to Communicate Story: The Canadian Pioneering Contribution.” International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR)—Participatory Communication Research Group. July 20 - 25, 2008, Stockholm University and the Department of Media, Journalism and Communication Stockholm, Sweden.

·         Dakroury, A. & Birdsall, W. (2008). “Blogs and the Right to Communicate: Towards Creating A Space-Less Public Sphere?” International Symposium on Technology and Society, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), June 2008, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.

·         Dakroury, A. (2008). “Telecommission Studies and the Intellectual Origins of the Right to Communicate in Canada (1969-71).”  The Canadian Communication Association Annual Conference: Thinking beyond Borders. Global ideas: Global Values. British Columbia, June 4- 6, 2008, University of British Columbia.

·         Dakroury, A. & Eid, M. (2007). “Direct from ‘Homeland’ to Home: Arab Disaporic Media and the Passage of “Al-Watan” to Canada.” The Middle East Studies Association (MESA) 41st Annual Conference, November 17-20, 2007. Montréal, Canada.

·         Dakroury, A. (2007). “CBC’s Little Mosque On the Prairie: Bridging the “Other” in Canada”. Canadian Communication Association Annual conference: Building Bridges: Making Public Knowledge – Making Knowledge Public. May, 30- June 1, 2007. University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada.

·         Dakroury, A. (2007). “Telecommission Studies (1969-1971): A History of communication as a human right in Canada.” Canadian Initiative in Law, Culture and the Humanities, 2nd Biennial Conference on Law, Culture and Humanities. October 12-14, 2007. Carleton University, Ottawa.

·         Dakroury, A. (2007). “The right to communicate: A new horizon for Communication Studies”. 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.

·         Dakroury, A. (2006). “A Right to Insult?! The Danish Cartoons Controversy and the Right to Communicate in Islam”. 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.

·         Dakroury, A. (2006). “Anti- and counter-terrorism: Snagging the practice of a human Right to Communicate.” The 4th International Conference on Information, Information’06, and the 4th Irish Conference on the Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science and Information Technology’06, MFCSIT’06, Information-MFCSIT’06 (August 1-5, 2006). University College Cork, Cork, Ireland: International Information Institute, Tokyo, Japan and National University of Ireland, Cork, Ireland.

·         Dakroury, A. (2006). “Instant World and the Right to communicate in Canada.” 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.

·         Dakroury, A. (2005). “A right to be “different”: Diversity and The right to communication in Islam,” The fifth International Conference on Diversity in Organisations, Communities and nations. Institute of Ethnic Administrators, June-July 2005, China.

·         Dakroury, A. (2005). “Patterns of Arabic Taste and Popular Culture: A Social Reading of Arabic advertising,” The 14th Annual KSU Cultural Studies Conference, Visual Culture: Image Imagination Ideology. March 2005, Kansas State University.

·         Dakroury, A. (2005). “Pluralism and the Right to Communicate in the Canadian ‘Multi-Culturalism’,” the 18th Biennial Conference of the Canadian Ethnic Studies Association: Toward Social Justice: Illusions, Realities, Possibilities, October 2005, Ottawa, Canada.

·         Dakroury, A. (2005). “Whose right to communicate: Al-Jazeera or CRTC?” The 25th Annual Conference of Canadian Association of Communication, June 2005, University of Western Ontario, Ontario.

·         Karim, K. H. & Dakroury, A. (2005). “Depictions of Political, Ethnic, and Religious Others in Al Jazeera and LBCI News Programs: A Preliminary Inquiry.” Arab-U.S. Media Forum in Dubai, Covering the Other: Intolerance and Bigotry in the American and Arab Media, December 2-5, 2005, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, sponsored by Aspen Institute.

·         Dakroury, A. (2004). “Marriage of old and new media: An assessment of media ownership and control of the AOL Time Warner merger in the age of convergence,” The International Conference on Intellectual Property Rights, Communication and the Public Domain in the Asia-Pacific Region, December 2004, Australia.

·         Dakroury, A. (2004). “Toward a Philosophical Approach of the Hermeneutics of the Qur'an: To Read, Understand, Think and Reflect ... or Just to Follow,” The 33rd Annual Conference of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists (AMSS), Revisioning Modernity: Challenges and Possibilities for Islam. George Mason University: Center for Global Studies and Islamic Studies Program, September 2004, Virginia.

·         Dakroury, A. (2003). “Psychological Analysis of the Role of the Diasporic Media: A Survey of the Egyptian Community in Ottawa,” The 17th Biennial Conference, Canadian Ethnic Studies under the title Ethnicity: Space & Place, October 2003, Alberta.

 

Special Academic Recognition:

 

Advisory Board Member

·         2009-Present.

Global Media Journal -- American Edition.

Founder & Managing Editor: Dr. Yahya R. Kamalipour

Purdue University Calumet, Hammond, Indiana 46323-2094, USA.

http://lass.calumet.purdue.edu/cca/gmj/gmj_advisoryboard.htm

 

Expert in Islamic Studies

·         January 2008 – Present.

Honorary expert in 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. The IRB is going to be an invaluable tool that will provide the media, policymakers and other organizations with a directory of credible experts on topics relevant to Islam and Muslims. Members of the IRB are invited to annual meetings to network, discuss emerging issues, and help each other become more effective at affecting public policy relating to Islam and Muslims.

 

Guest Editor

·         Fall 2008.

Global Media Journal -- American Edition.

Theme: The Right to Communicate: History, current debates, and future challenges.

 

Honorary Speaker

·         May 4, 2006.

Talk title: The Right to Communicate and Multi-Culturalism in Canada.

Meeting of the North America Regional Board of Directors.The World Association for Christian Communication. Winnipeg, Manitoba. 3-4 May 2006.

Organizer: North American Regional Association of the World Association for Christian Communication. Website: http://www.nara-wacc.org/

 

Invited Speaker

·         January 9, 2004. Presentation title: The right to communicate: Discourse, conspiracy and struggles for recognition. Friday Talk Series. School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

 

Membership and Affiliation:

 

·         Canadian Communication Association (CCA).

·         Canadian Ethnic Studies Association (CESA).

·         International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR)

·         North American Regional Association of the World Association for Christian Communication (NARA).

·         World Association for Christian Communication (WACC).

·         Association of Muslim Social Scientists (AMSS).

·         The International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT).

·         The Middle East Studies Association (MESA).

·         Amnesty International.

·         Index on Censorship.

·         International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX).

·         Arab Organization of Human Rights.

·         Egyptian Organization of Human rights (EOHR).

·         World Bank Research Observer.

·         Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Settlement