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Adam Daifallah is
a Canadian law student, author and journalist.
A native of Peterborough,
Ontario, Adam was a member of the editorial board
at the National
Post in Toronto, as well as the newspaper's curling
columnist, from 2003 to 2005. Previously, he was a Washington
correspondent of The
New York Sun, where he covered everything from Iraqi
opposition groups to the American labor movement to the Masters
golf championship. He reported from post-war Iraq in May 2003.
For the 2004-2005 school year, he was on fellowship at McGill
University in Montreal as a Sauvé
Scholar.
Adam's second book,
Rescuing
Canada's Right: Blueprint for a Conservative Revolution
(with Tasha Kheiriddin), was published in November, 2005.
Called "the most forward-thinking book on Canadian conservatism
in more than a generation" by the Toronto Sun,
it became a best-seller in February, 2006. His first book,
Gritlock:
Are the Liberals in Forever?, (with Peter
G. White), was released in November, 2001. He has worked as
a researcher on several books including Lord (Conrad) Black's
The Invincible Quest: The Life of Richard Milhous Nixon
and Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom, as
well as The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George
W. Bush by David Frum.
Adam won first prize
in the Institute for Humane Studies' 2002-2003
Felix Morley Journalism Competition for young writers,
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.
Adam's writing career
began with a weekly column in the Peterborough Examiner,
which ran from 1998 to 2000. His articles and reviews have
been published in the National Post, The
Globe and Mail, La
Presse, Policy
Options 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: The Agenda with Steve Paikin, the Fox
News Channel, CBC Newsworld's Politics with Don Newman
and CBC Sunday, CBC Radio's Cross-Country Checkup
and The Current, and Michael
Coren Live.
Before becoming
a journalist, Adam was active in student and party politics
at the local, provincial and national levels. He was president
of the Ontario
Progressive Conservative Campus Association, the campus
affiliate of the Ontario Tories, for the 2001-2002 schoolyear,
and policy director of the PC Youth Federation of Canada from
1998 to 2000.
Adam was the student
trustee on the Kawartha
Pine Ridge District School Board in 1998 and 1999. He
was presented with a Civic Award from the Mayor of Peterborough
in 1999 for his outstanding contribution to the community.
He was a member of the board of directors of the foundation
of the Naval
Museum of Québec from 2006-2008.
A former provincial champion junior
golfer and curler, Adam is a graduate of Laval
University law school (Class of '08), where he was the
recipient of the Richard
J. Schmeelk scholarship, and Queen's
University (Class of '02) where he earned a BA (Hons.)
in history and political studies.
(February
2009)
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