Miriyam - Palestine Online

Miriyam is an anthropologist slash internet researcher slash activist. For 'We can analyze the world till we drop, but the challenge is to change it' in the words of Groucho...

Saturday, 1 December 2012

Book Launch

Book launch at the American Colony Bookshop in Jerusalem, 29 November

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Although I'm researching the development and usage of the internet - including the booming online/Blog communities - working on my own homepage is not (really) a priority. Alas: lack of time is a 'real', 'non-virtual', 'offline' disadvantage, and with what is left I prioritise offline engagement, so bare with me...

Research

(Leverhulme/current) Internet in the Arab Revolutions: Unveiling the offline-online dialectics - Deconstructing the myths.
Postdoc (previous): Cyber Politics: Activism 2.0
PhD: Palestine Online, Cyber intifada and the Construction of a virtual community

Publications Academia (selection)

monograph Aouragh, M. 2011. Palestine Online: Transnationalism, the Internet and the construction of Identity. London: I.B. Tauris.
Aouragh, M. 2012 (in press). Intolerance in the name of Tolerance: Resisting (while experiencing) Islamophobia. In: Dutch Racism. Philomena Essed and Isabel Hoving (eds,). Amsterdam, New York: Thamyris.
Aouragh, M. 2012 (under review). Between Cybercide and Cyber Intifada: Technologic (dis-)empowerment of Palestinian activism. In: Arab Media and Political Contestations. Lena Jayyushi (ed.). Ramallah: Muwatin Press.
Aouragh, M. 2011. Palestinian Diaspora: Virtual spaces-Territorial places. In: J. Husseini and A. Signoles (Eds.). Paris: Institut des Hautes Etudes.
Aouragh, M. 2008. Virtual Intifada: Online Activism and everyday Resistance. Journal of Arab and Muslim Media Research 1.2:109-130. Bristol, Intellect.
Aouragh, M. 2011. New Modes of Communication: Web Representations and Blogs. Gender Dynamics in Palestinian Internet Cafes. In: Encyclopaedia of Women & Islamic Cultures. Suad Joseph (general Editor). Brill

Publications: Activism (Selection)

Hoofddoekverbod symboliseert afwijzing gelijkheid en diversiteit. De Socialist, 9 April
After Oslo: Europe Islam and the Mainstreaming of Racism (with Richard Seymour). Jadaliyya, 27 July
Palestina in de VN: Abbas bedrijft bodemloze Symboolpolitiek. Opiniestukken, 23 September
Opinie en oproep Stop aanvallen op Gaza
Eenzijdig emanciperen - feminisme en racisme
Juist meelopers brengen gedonder
Contrast: Het nieuwe racisme
Biggest protest in Beirut history
Israel voert ook Amerika's oorlog
Liberaal feministen, voor wie eisen jullie emancipatie?
Libanon is kapot!
Over macho's, bitchen, en zogenaamd geslagen willen worden
Racism and islamophobia are the real problems
Zwarte kiezers zijn niet 'anders'
Open letter to family and friends of Tom Hurndall

Bio Miriyam Aouragh

As an undergrad I studied anthropology/non-Western Sociology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (specialized in what was then called 'Ethnic and Minority Studies'); during my graduate studies I took courses in Anthropology & Sociology at Goldsmiths University of London, and Arabic and Politics at Birzeit University. The MA thesis concerned the question of national identity amongst university students in Palestine during the Oslo era after the First Intifada. I worked as a counselor in Amsterdam [setting up projects and policies vis-a-vis minority youth, something I cared about politically and personally. With local politics I couldn't change much of the structural inequalities, I got more involved in activism and at the same time an academic itch started. In 2001 I embarked on a PhD research regarding the implications of the Internet in Palestine. I got involved with anti-war and anti-racism campaigns. After the Phd research I taught 'Race, Racism and Islamophobia in the Netherlands' . In 2008 I was awarded the Rubicon grant and since 2009 a postdoc fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute. I study the implementation of Web 2.0 in political activist organizing in Palestine and Lebanon and I follow the impact of the internet on complex political dynamics in the Arab world. Apart from research I lecture Cyber Politics and Mass Media at the Oxford Middle East Centre University. In 2013 I will start a new research (Leverhulme) about the role of new/online media before, during and after the Arab revolutions at CAMRI (University of Westminster).

Guernica

Picasso's magnificent piece, which at once illustrates and protests the insanity of war, is a reminder for all

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