Dr Myriam Amri

Myriam is a Research Fellow, elected in 2025.

Biography

Born in Tunis, Myriam holds a PhD in Anthropology and Middle East Studies from Harvard University. She completed undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at Columbia University, Sciences Po Paris, and the London School of Economics. Alongside her academic work, Myriam maintains a creative practice in filmmaking and visual arts, and is the co–founder of Asameena, an experimental literary collective.

Research

Myriam's research investigates the political life of capitalism, asking how its logics are lived and contested in the everyday. Her current project is an ethnography of Tunisia's national currency, using money to tell a different story of revolution and its disillusions. She devises a method to follow the money, from the vaults of a Central Bank to the illicit circulations at borderlands. Her work situates North Africa and the Middle East as crucial geographies from which to entangle capitalism and coloniality today.

She is also beginning a project that ties her anthropological training with her visual practice, examining borders as sites where violence is enacted through visuality, from technologies of policing to the slow violence of ecological collapse. Across her academic and creative works, she strives to unsettle ethnography through material and visual methodologies and treat method as a critical site for theory–making.