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Who is Adam Daifallah?
Adam Daifallah is a member of the editorial board at
A native
of Peterborough, Ontario, Daifallah was previously a Washington
correspondent of The New York Sun,
where he covered everything from Iraqi opposition groups to the American labor
(labour here in Canada) movement to the Masters golf championship. He reported from
post-war Iraq in May 2003.
Daifallah
won first prize in the Institute for Humane
Studies’ 2002-2003 Felix Morley Journalism Competition for young writers, a
contest whose past winners include Jonathan Karl of ABC News, James Taranto
of The Wall Street Journal
and Canadian physician and writer David Gratzer. He was a finalist in the 2001 Magna “As Prime Minister” Awards contest,
winning $10,000 and a four-month, paid internship at Magna International, Inc.
He is
co-author, with Peter G. White, of Gritlock: Are the
Liberals in Forever?, a
book released in November, 2001 that made the case for a single conservative
alternative to
Daifallah’s writing career began with a weekly newspaper column in the Peterborough
Examiner, which ran from 1998-2000. His articles and reviews have been
published in The Globe and Mail,
Saturday Night magazine, National Review Online, The American
Spectator, the Calgary Herald, the
Ottawa Citizen,
the Montreal Gazette,
the Hamilton Spectator and a
number of other publications, both online and in print.
He has
been a guest on many public affairs programs on both radio and television,
including: Global Sunday, the Fox News Channel, CBC Newsworld’s
Politics with Don Newman, CBC Radio’s Cross-Country Checkup, and Michael
Coren Live.
Before
becoming a full-time writer, Daifallah was active in
student and party politics at the local, provincial and national levels. He was
policy director of the PC Youth Federation of Canada from 1998-2000 and
president of the Ontario Progressive
Conservative Campus Association, the campus affiliate of the Ontario
Tories, for the 2001-2002 school year. He was the student trustee on the Kawartha Pine Ridge
District School Board in 1998-1999.
He was
awarded a Civic Award from the Mayor of Peterborough in 1999 for his “outstanding
contribution to the community.”
A former
provincial champion junior golfer and curler, Daifallah
graduated from Queen’s University (Class
of ’02) with a BA (Hons.) in history and political
studies. He can be reached via email at adam-AT-daifallah.com.
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