George Mansour is an Iraq

Iraq

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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

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 based in Toronto

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 and Senior Advisor for the International Organization for Migration

International Organization for Migration

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 - 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.