Miriyam Aouragh

Miriyam Aouragh, 2013

Miriyam Aouragh (Amsterdam, 18 November 1972) is a Dutch Palestinian liberation activist and academic who commentates on social media and internet activism. She is Professor 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 cultural 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] and her work on social media is cited in educational books.[10][11]

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.
  10. ^ Ritzer, George; Dean, Paul (2015). Globalization: A Basic Text. John Wiley & Sons. p. 247. ISBN 978-1-118-68712-3.
  11. ^ Fuchs, Christian (2013). Social Media: A Critical Introduction. SAGE Publications. pp. 86–93. ISBN 978-1-4462-9686-8.


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