George Mansour
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George Mansour is an Iraq
Iraq
Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....

i journalist, broadcaster and politician, a Minister of Region for Civil Society Affairs and founder and first General Manager for Ishtar Broadcasting Corporation (Ishtar TV
Ishtar TV
Ishtar TV is an Assyrian Chaldean Syriac broadcasting channel which has its headquarters in Ankawa, Iraq. It was established by Sarkis Aghajan and was led by George Mansour, who was Ishtar TV's first General Manager, in 2005. The language broadcasts mostly in Syriac, but Arabic and Kurdish are...

) till June 2006. He is multilingual with proficiency in Arabic, English, Kurdish, Turkish, Russian, Persian and Syriac.

He studied Engineering in Printing Technology and Media and had high dipolmas in Philosophy and Education.

In 2003, he was General Manager at SAIC for Iraqi Media Network (IMN) TV (Aliraqia), Editor-in-chief of its TV News and producer and host to Iraqi Media Network IMN radio and TV shows. Other journalistic responsibilities included broadcasting at Radio Free Iraq
Radio Free Iraq
Radio Free Iraq is a 24-hour radio station broadcasting in Arabic from Prague, the Czech Republic and directed to Iraq and the Iraqi diaspora...

 in Prague
Prague
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, correspondent of Az Zaman and Al-Mutamar newspapers based in London
London
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, England
England
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, reporter at Sawt Alshab Al Iraqi radio based in Saudi Arabia and Radio Canada International
Radio Canada International
Radio Canada International is the international broadcasting service of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation . Until 1970, it was known as the CBC International Service and was sometimes referred to as the "Voice of Canada" in its early years.- The early years :The idea for creating an...

 based in Toronto
Toronto
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 and Senior Advisor for the International Organization for Migration
International Organization for Migration
The International Organization for Migration is an intergovernmental organization. It was initially established in 1951 as the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration to help resettle people displaced by World War II....

 - Canada
Canada
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.

He is member of many national and international organizations including International Organization of Journalists
International Organization of Journalists
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, the Kurdistan Journalists’ Union, the Canadian Iraqi Coordination Committee, the Organization for Civil Society in Iraq, the Iraqi Forum for Democracy (IFD) and participant in many international conferences in Kurdistan, Iraq and abroad and member of KRG’s Honour Killing Monitoring Commission and President of the Iraqi Society of Human Rights-Canada.
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