Miriyam Aouragh

Miriyam Aouragh, 2013

Miriyam Aouragh (Amsterdam, 18 November 1972) is a Dutch-Moroccan activist and academic based in Oxford (UK). She writes and teaches about infrastructures, political uprisings and the social implications of digital media. She is Professor of Digital Anthropology at the University of Westminster.[1]

Biography

Aouragh was born to parents who had migrated to the Netherlands from Morocco. In the early 2000s, she was a student of virtual communities in Palestine,[2] a member of the International Socialists,[3] and active in Amsterdam as an activist for Moroccan youth[4] and the Palestinian cause.[5][6] She got her doctorate in anthropology (including such topics as "Palestine in Cyberspace"[7]) from the University of Amsterdam in 2008; her dissertation, Palestine Online, studied internet activism in Palestine, Jordan, and Lebanon, and was published in 2011.[8] She published on the use of the internet and social media during the Egyptian revolution of 2011,[9] Miriyam joined Oxford University in 2009 where she worked at the Oxford Internet Institute and at the Middle East Centre.

References

  1. ↑ University of Westminster, academic directory
  2. ↑ Azough, Rachida (5 October 2002). "Freepalestina.nl heeft last van Israël-lobby". De Volkskrant (in Dutch). Retrieved 15 September 2016.
  3. ↑ "Cohen neemt vlagverbranding niet licht op". De Volkskrant (in Dutch). 16 April 2002. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
  4. ↑ Groen, Janny; Oñorbe Genovesi, Iñaki (10 March 2003). "Jahjah legt intens onbehagen Marokkaanse jongeren bloot". De Volkskrant (in Dutch). Retrieved 15 September 2016.
  5. ↑ "Palestijnse vlaggen gaan op actiedag bij duizenden uit". De Volkskrant (in Dutch). 1 July 2002. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
  6. ↑ Atshan, Sa’ed (1 October 2021). "The Anthropological Rise of Palestine". Journal of Palestine Studies. 50 (4): 10. doi:10.1080/0377919X.2021.1969806. ISSN 0377-919X. S2CID 244661676.
  7. ↑ Meyer, Birgit; Moors, Annelies (2005). Religion, Media, and the Public Sphere. Indiana UP. p. 11. ISBN 978-0-253-11172-2.
  8. ↑ Lionis, Chrisoula (2016). Laughter in Occupied Palestine: Comedy and Identity in Art and Film. I.B.Tauris. p. 203. ISBN 978-1-78453-288-8.
  9. ↑ Kellner, Bruce (2016). "Media Spectacle and the North African Arab Uprisings". In Bruce Magnusson (ed.). Spectacle. Zahi Zalloua. U of Washington P. p. 61. ISBN 978-0-295-80616-7.
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