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How did the mainstream media use the framing of 9/11 to describe the Oct. 7 attacks, and how does their coverage privilege the Israeli narrative?
How do people consume the news and the battle for ideas over the depiction of the conflict in Israel and Gaza?
Professor Adel Iskandar is an Associate Professor of Global Communication at Simon Fraser University where he directs the Centre for Comparative Muslim Studies (CCMS). He is the author, co-author, and editor of several works including “Egypt In Flux: Essays on an Unfinished Revolution”; “Al-Jazeera: The Story of the Network that is Rattling Governments and Redefining Modern Journalism” and “Edward Said: A Legacy of Emancipation and Representation”. Iskandar’s work deals with media, identity and politics; and he is a co-editor of Jadaliyya.
