Aliaa Dakroury
Professeure titulaire | Corps professoral
Profil
Dr. Aliaa Dakroury est une professeure titulaire à l’École de communication sociale de la Faculté des sciences humaines à l’Université Saint-Paul d’Ottawa. Elle a obtenu son baccalauréat en études des médias avec une spécialisation en relations publiques de l’Université du Caire, ainsi que d’une maîtrise et d’un doctorat de l’École de journalisme et de communication de l’Université Carleton. Avant de se joindre à l’Université Saint-Paul, elle a enseigné au Département de droit et d’études juridiques, au Département de sociologie et d’anthropologie et à l’École de journalisme et de communication de l’Université Carleton, ainsi qu’au Département de communication de l’Université d’Ottawa. Ses recherches portent notamment sur l’historiographie de la communication comme un droit de la personne, l’islam et les médias, les politiques médiatiques canadiennes et internationales, la liberté de la presse et la défense des droits des médias.
- Droit à la communication et droits à la communication
- L’éthique des Médias
- La politique de communication
- Historiographie de la communication
- Représentation culturelle et médiatique
- Médias et islam
Ph.D. Communication Studies (Carleton University, 2008)
M.A. Communication Studies (Carleton University, 2003)
B.A. Public Relations and Advertising (Cairo University, 1993)
Dakroury, A. (2025). “Information or Disinformation? The Arab Canadian perception of Canadian media coverage during the Gaza-war 2023”. In Yahya R. Kamalipour (Ed.), Propaganda in the Digital Age: Global Conflicts, Media, Politics, and Fake News. Rowman & Littlefield.
Dakroury, A. (2024). A « Brand-New » World Communication Order: BNWCO? In Weaving Communication in Solidarity. Media Development. Journal of the World Association for Christian Communication (Volume 2/2024).
Dakroury, A. (2024). The Instant World Report: Canada’s Role in Shaping the Right to Communicate. Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research series: Palgrave/IAMCR.
Dakroury, A. & Stambouli, Jamel. (Eds). (Fall 2024). Diversity & Migration in Canada: Dynamics & Challenges. Global Media Journal—Canadian Edition.
Dakroury, A. (2024). Qatar World Cup 2022: Dribbling between Media Narratives Journal of Sport Media, 19(2).
Dakroury, A. (2022). The Dissident: “Sawing” political activism by Media Corporation? Gazette: Journal of International Communication. at:
Luppicini, R., & Dakroury, A. (Eds). (Winter 2015). Ethics in the information society. Journal of Telematics and Informatics.
Dakroury, A. (2012). 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, (pp. 161-181). Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
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. 1-15). Hershey, PA: IGI-Global.
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. & Hoffmann, J. (Eds.). (Spring 2010). Communication and Human Rights. International Communication Gazette, Sage Publications. (pp. 315-440).
Dakroury, A. (Ed.). (Fall 2014). Media and Culture, Global Media Journal — Canadian Edition.
Dakroury, A. (2009). Communication and Human Rights. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt Publishing.
Dakroury, A., Eid, M. & Kamalipour, Y. R. (Eds.). (2009). The Right to Communicate: Historical hopes, global debates and future premises. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing.
Jiwani, Y. & Dakroury, A. (Eds.). (Fall 2009). Veiling Differences: Mediating Race, Gender and Nation in Canada. Global Media Journal — Canadian Edition. (pp. 1-127).
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.
- 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, Montréal, 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.
- Ottawa Carleton District School of Board (OCDSB): Excellence in Equity Community Award Community Award (2021)
- Province of Ontario: Leading Women Building Communities Award (2011)
- Van Horne Prize: Canadian Communication Association (2005)