Dr. Aliaa Dakroury: Little Mosque on the Prairie VS. Aliens in America
Channel: MMUNAC
Date: 2012-06-25

Aliaa Dakroury is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication, University of Ottawa, Canada. Dr. Dakroury is the managing editor of the American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences (AJISS). 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 Fall 2008 special issue on the "Right to Communicate" in the Global Media Journal -- American Edition, and co-editor of Introduction to Communication and Media Studies (2008). She is the winner of the Canadian Communication Association's 2005 Van Horne Award.

Her publications appear in various journals, such as: the Journal of International Communication, the American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture, the Global Media Journal -- American Edition, and the Journal of Culture, Language, and Representation. Her work concentrates on the examination of communication and human rights, and her research interests include: the Right to Communicate, media policy, international communication, Diaspora, globalization, ICTs, media representations, and Islam.

You can read Dakroury's article "CBC's Little Mosque on the Prairie: Just a 'Little Masquerade'?" available online here: http://www.waccglobal.org/images/stories/media_development/2008-3/cbc-s-little-mosque-on-the-prairie.pdf

Filmed at the Telling Our Own Stories event, Oct 25 2011
Hosted by the Multimedia & Multiculturalism Initiative of the United Nations Association in Canada (UNAC) - http://mmunac.org

Full list of videos from the event:
Introduction - http://www.youtu.be/U5kYNSFB2j4
Dr. Aliaa Dakroury: Little Mosque on the Prairie VS. Aliens in America - http://www.youtu.be/D5LY57c0RAA
Amen Jafri: Telling the Story of My Name - http://www.youtu.be/3ymhnMFWhbQ
Q&A with Dr. Aliaa Dakroury and Amen Jafri - http://www.youtu.be/zkA429pdSCw
Monia Mazigh: Telling Muslim Women's Stories - http://www.youtu.be/7xoPBeE3zEc
Ikram Jama: Telling the Story of Somali Canadians - http://www.youtu.be/QPbVUZ7p1A4
Q&A with Monia Mazigh and Ikram Jama - http://www.youtu.be/cidYN9HU4P4

Videos by Greg Macdougall, http://EquitableEducation.ca