Book launch Friday 24 June 2011
12.30-13.30
VU University Amsterdam,
Metropolitan building, Buitenveldertselaan 3
Room Z 113
Dear colleagues,
You are cordially invited to attend the book launch of one our alumni:
Palestine Online. Transnationalism, the Internet and the construction of Identity.
Miriyam Aouragh
Miriyma Aouragh is Post-Doctoral Rubicon Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, she is working on political activism and the use of internet/web 2 in Palestine and Lebanon. She started her study Anthropology at the VU University, she holds her PhD at the University of Amsterdam.
Book: For Palestine's diaspora and exiled communities, the internet has become an important medium for the formation of Palestinian national and transnational identity. Miriyam Aouragh looks at the internet as both a space and an instrument for linking Palestinian diasporas in Palestine, Jordan and Lebanon. Through the internet, participants reconstruct a virtual ‘Palestinian homeland’, gain a space for recovering the past, for overcoming issues of mobility, and for generating social change.
Book: (Europe/UK) http://www.ibtauris.com/Middle%20East.aspx
(US) http://us.macmillan.com/palestineonline
Programme
12.30-12.50: Presentation dr Miriaym Aouragh (Oxford Internet Institute) http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/?id=151
12.50-13.00: Discussant Donya Alinejad (VU SCA)
13.00 -13.30: Plenary discussion
Chair: Lenie Brouwer (VU SCA)
For more information l.a.brouwer@vu.nl or d.alinejad@fsw.vu.nl
