# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/adel-iskandar
# Generated: 2026-08-31T16:43:47.680Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/adel-iskandar"
name: "Adel Iskandar"
slug: "adel-iskandar"
description: "Adel Iskandar is a British-born Middle East media scholar, postcolonial theorist, analyst, and academic. He is currently an Associate Professor of Global Communication at Simon Fraser University in Canada. The author and co-author of several works on Arabic language media, Iskandar's work has contributed both to the political economy of communication and the cultural impact of media. His most prominent works deal with analyses of the Arabic satellite station Al Jazeera, digital dissidence, global communication theory, and decolonization."
tagline: "British academic"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Egypt"
  isoCode: "EG"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1977-03-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             9.041322314049587
  historical:           5.673218666666667
  currentAttention:     22.22222222222222
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "عادل اسكندر"
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    title: "عادل اسکندر"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adel_Iskandar"
    title: "Adel Iskandar"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1968668"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump