Professor Miriyam Aouragh

Research Affiliate

Miriyam Aouragh Professor of Digital Anthropology. Aouragh studied the implications of the internet as it was first introduced (“Web 1.0”) in Palestine in 200, analysing the significance of techno-social evolutions. She subsequently focused on the political role of digital tools and social networking sites ("Web 2.0") among grassroots activism in Lebanon and Palestine in 2009 as a fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute. In 2013 Aouragh set-up a critical research project to study the Arab (Counter-)Revolutions in the context of Morocco and Syria, relating critical theory with online-offline dialects. Aouragh is Social Justice Working Group Coordinator of Labor-Tech and co-director of The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest. She was selected to become Transnational Institute Fellow in acknowledgement of her public impact (2024-2028). In 2023 she won a full fellowship for the Institute for Advanced Studies to work on a review of on Palestinian internet scholarship spanning two decades. In 2024 she received the Swiss Foundation grant as CO-I for the international project lnfrastructural rehearsals: creative responses to the green and digital transition. Her publications include Palestine Online (IB Tauris 2011); The Arab Spring a decade on (TNI 2022, with Hamza Hamouchene); Mediating the Makhzan the (r)evolutionary dynamics in Morocco (forthcoming CUP) and Infrastructures of Empire (forthcoming, with Paula Chakravartty.