Adel Iskandar is a Vancouver-based academic, activist, and public intellectual. He serves as a professor of global communication and Director of the Centre for Comparative Muslims Studies at Simon Fraser University. Iskandar’s research and lecturing touch on creative production, with a commitment to intersectional decolonization and anti-racist epistemology, in the MENA/SWANA region, with cinematic, journalistic, and artistic works screened at international film festivals and globally including full feature documentaries, creative shorts, and television series. Iskandar co-founded the Black Journalists Association of Nova Scotia as well as the Council Against Islamophobia and BIPOC Faculty Working Group at SFU, and has supervised graduate students working on film projects at Georgetown University and SFU's School of Communication.