Aliaa Dakroury

• 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 “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. National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico-City, Mexico.

• “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.

• “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. (2009)

• “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. Iskandar, A. & 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.

• “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.

• “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.4- 6, 2008, University of British Columbia. Dakroury, A. & Birdsall, W. (2008).

• “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. & Eid, M. (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.

• “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.

• “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.

• “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.

• “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.

• “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. (2006)

• “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.

• “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.

• “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.

• “Whose right to communicate: Al-Jazeera or CRTC?”

  The 25th Annual Conference of Canadian Association of Communication, June 2005, University of Western Ontario, Ontario.

• “Veiling Canada: Niqab vs. Hijab and the Question of Accommodation”.

  Women’s Worlds 2011 conference: Inclusions, exclusions, and seclusions: Living in a globalized world. Panel: Representations of Muslim and “Diasporic” Women in Western Society and Pop Culture. University of Ottawa, 3-7 July 2011.

• “Questioning the Universality: Disability Rights between Legal Discourses and Policy Narratives”.

  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. Hoffmann, J. & Dakroury, A, (2010).

• “Privacy and the Right ‘Not’ To Communicate in the Canadian Media Policy”

  Canadian Communication Association Annual Conference, Connected Understanding, Concordia University, MontrĂ©al, 1–3June, 2010.

• “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. & Hoffmann, J. (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.

• Ontario Leading Women Building Communities Award
  2011
• Van Horne Prize in the Canadian Communication Association Conference
  2005