Aliaa Dakroury
Limited-term Replacement Professor at the rank of Assistant Professor, Department of Communication
Member of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies and thereby authorized to supervise theses.
Managing Editor, The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences (AJISS)
Research Affiliate, Wilfrid Laurier International Migration Research CentreOffice: 310, 554 King Edward Avenue
Telephone: 613-562-5800, ext. 2519
E-mail: adakrour@uOttawa.ca
Website: www.AliaaDakroury.ca
University Degrees
2008: PhD in Communication, Carleton University
2003: MA in Communication, Carleton University
1993: BA in Public Relations and Advertising, Cairo University
Fields of Interest
- Communication Rights
- Globalization and Information Technology
- Governance and Canadian Media policy
- Social Justice and Cultural rights
- Islam and Media Representation
Ongoing Research
I believe that one of the strengths of being a communication and human rights researcher is the ability to cross the disciplinary boundaries in the fields of social sciences and humanities. Of my particular interest is the investigation of the different ways Canadian, regional, and international policies either help or hinder the free enjoyment of the human right to communicate.
Latest Publications
Books
Eid, M. & Dakroury, A. (Eds.). (2010). Communication and media studies: An introduction. Boston, MA: Pearson.
Dakroury, A. (2009). Communication and Human Rights. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt Publishing.
Book Chapters
Dakroury, A. (2011). “The Electronic Pontifices Maximi: Social Networking and the Right to Communicate”. In Dal Yong Jin (Ed.), Global Media Convergence and Cultural Transformation: Emerging Social Patterns and Characteristics (pp. 152-164). Hershey, PA: IGI-Global.
Dakroury, A. (2011). “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. (2011). Media and the Arab Integration in Canada: 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. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
Eid, M. & Dakroury, A. (2010). The Canadian media framing of the 2009 Iranian presidential election. In Yahya R. Kamalipour (Ed.), Media, power, and politics in the digital age: The 2009 presidential election uprising in Iran. New York: Rowman & Littlefield.
Journal Issues
Dakroury, A. & Hoffmann, J. (Eds.). (Spring 2010). Communication and Human Rights. International Communication Gazette, 72(4/5), Sage Publications.
Jiwani, Y. & Dakroury, A. (Eds.). (Fall 2009). Veiling Differences: Mediating Race, Gender and Nation in Canada. Global Media Journal -- Canadian Edition, 2(2).
Journal Articles
Dakroury, A. & Hoffmann, J. (2010). Communication as a Human Right: A Blind Spot in Communication Research? Journal of International Communication Gazette, 72(4/5), 315-322.
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, 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). The Arab-Canadian consumption of Disaporic media. Journal of International Communication, 12(2), 35-51.
Dakroury, A. (2005). Whose right to communicate: Al-Jazeera or CRTC? Global Media Journal -- American Edition, 4(7).
Dakroury, A. (2004). Globalization and the right to communicate: Utopia or prison? Journal of InterGroup Relations, 31(3), 40-60
Reviews
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.
Conference Papers
Dakroury, A. (2011). “Veiling Canada: Niqab vs. Hijab and the Question of Accommodation”. Women’s Worlds 2011 conference: Inclusions, exclusions, and seclusions: Living in a globalized world. Carleton and the University of Ottawa, 3-7 July 2011.
Hoffmann, J. & Dakroury, A, (2010). “Disability Rights between Legal Discourses and Policy Narratives”. In the roundtable on “Disability, Communication and Human Rights, panel for “Communication Technology and Policy” section IAMCR 28th Annual Conference, Communication and Citizenship: Rethinking Crisis and Change. Braga, Portugal, 18-22 July, 2010.
Dakroury, A. (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. (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. & 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. (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. & 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.