Associate Professor
School of Social Communication, Saint Paul University, Ottawa ON
Expertise: Immigration, Health, Settlement, Special Newcomer Populations, Professional Development Skills (Education Topics, Ethics), IEHPs – Internationally Educated Healthcare Professionals
Dr. Aliaa Dakroury is an Associate Professor at the School of Social Communication, Saint Paul University. She holds a PhD from Carleton University’s School of Journalism and Communication. She taught at the University of Ottawa’s Department of Communication and Carleton University’s Departments of Sociology and Anthropology, Law, and Journalism and Communication. Her fields of interest are: communication rights; history of communication; globalization and information technology; governance and Canadian media policy; social justice and cultural rights; and Islam and media representation.
Professor Dakroury has taught various classes on a variety of subject, such as: Media Ethics; Media and Great Social Debates; Knowing the Media; Interpersonal Communication; Organizational Communication; Electronic Journalism; Theories of Mediated Communication; Media and Religion; Women, media and Islam, among others.
Professor Dakroury is the co-editor of the Global Media Journal—Canadian Edition, and her publications appear in various journals, including the Journal of International Communication, Media Development, the American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, Studies in Contemporary Culture, the Journal of InterGroup Relations, the Global Media Journal, the Journal of Culture, Language, and Representation, among others.