Adel Iskandar is an Associate Professor of Global Communication, the Graduate Chair in the School of Communication, and Director of the Centre for Comparative Muslim Studies (CCMS) at Simon Fraser University. The author and coauthor of numerous 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. A prolific writer, commentator, podcaster, film producer, speaker, and public intellectual, his work traverses geographic boundaries and unsettles colonial architecture.

His two forthcoming works are authored 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 Status (https://statushour.com/). 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 diverse MENA/SWANA arts communities across the Lower Mainland and 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.