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Director
Adel Iskandar
Adel Iskandar is an Associate Professor of Global Communication at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver/Burnaby, Canada. He is the author, co-author, and editor of several works including "Egypt In Flux: Essays on an Unfinished Revolution" (AUCP/OUP); "Al-Jazeera: The Story of the Network that is Rattling Governments and Redefining Modern Journalism" (Basic Books); "Edward Said: A Legacy of Emancipation and Representation" (University of California Press); "Mediating the Arab Uprisings" (Tadween Publishing); and "Media Evolution on the Eve of the Arab Spring" (Palgrave Macmillan).
Iskandar's work deals with media, identity and politics; and he has lectured extensively on these topics at universities worldwide. His forthcoming publications are two monographs, one addressing the political role of memes and digital satire and the other about contemporary forms of imperial transculturalism. Iskandar's engaged participatory research includes supporting knowledge production through scholarly digital publishing such as "Jadaliyya" and academic podcasting such as "Status." His community research agenda involves showcasing local grassroots participatory creative production by communities in the Middle East to confront the rise of extremism.
Iskandar's work also involves the autobiographical documentation and self-representation of Syrian newcomer women in the Lower Mainland illustrates their ingenuity in the face adversity. Prior to his arrival at SFU, Iskandar taught at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies and the Communication, Culture, and Technology Program at Georgetown University, in Washington, DC.
Steering Committee
Yıldız Atasoy
Professor, Sociology
Thomas Kuehn
Associate Professor, History
Azadeh Yamini-Hamedani
Associate Professor & Chair, World Languages and Literatures
Evdoxios Doxiadis
Lecturer, History
Tamir Moustafa
Professor, School for International Studies
Staff
Kylie Broderick
Coordinator
In addition to her work at CCMS, Kylie is a Ph.D. candidate and Mellon Fellow in modern Middle East history at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She works at SFU as the Coordinator for the Centre for Comparative Muslim Studies. She is also the managing editor of Jadaliyya. At the National Humanities Center, she teaches the Introduction to the Modern Middle East course to K-12 educators. Her interests are in the political economy of the Middle East, as well as histories of gender and capitalism, social mobilizations, and socio-economic class construction in Lebanon and Syria, and she is currently writing a dissertation focusing on these subjects.
Oromyia Ali
Coordinator of the MiCA Project
Oromyia is a 4th-year International Studies major with a concentration in Security and Conflict, as well as a minor in Communications. She is joining CCMS as an Outreach Coordinator and collaborating on the University of Toronto's MiCA (Muslims in Canada Archive) project to expand in British Columbia. Oromyia is excited to engage more deeply with the Muslim community and foster inclusive dialogues while contributing to the preservation and growth of the Muslim archive in BC.
Parsa Alirezaei
RESEARCH ASSISTANT
Parsa Alirezaei is a former intern at the International Court of Justice. He's currently working at the Centre for Comparative Muslim Studies as a research assistant, Law for Palestine as a researcher, and Spheres of Influence as a managing editor. He’s also a junior researcher of self-determination movements in modern MENA/SWANA.
Joseph Methuselah
RESEARCH ASSISTANT
Joseph Methuselah Egyptian filmmaker, visual artist, and researcher based in Vancouver, BC, Canada, with over a decade of experience in the film industry. His work is dedicated to pushing boundaries, experimenting, and exploring uncharted territories at the intersection of visual art, film, and mixed media fostering meaningful dialogues between arts and broader culture through multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary artistic practices.
