Professor Miriyam Aouragh is a lecturer and researcher in the UK. Miriyam grew up in Amsterdam as a second-generation Dutch-Moroccan and has a background in cultural anthropology and non-Western sociology (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Goldsmiths College London and Birzeit University in Palestine). She was actively involved in the anti-racism movement and anti-war campaigns between 2000-2008, as one of the founders of Samen tegen Racisme she actively participated in the public debate around the murder of Van Gogh and the rise of Wilders. She is critical of the co-option of anti-racist themes by business and institutional diversity politics, as decolonisation presupposes anti-colonial struggles and the structural tackling of inequality. As a digital anthropologist, she studies the role of social media and online activism in Palestine and the role of technology during the Arab Revolutions. With this expertise, Miriyam Aouragh engages in the public debate on Big Tech capitalism and politics in the Middle East.  Among her contributions, she wrote ‘’White privilege‘ and shortcuts to anti-racism’ (Race & Class, 2019) and ‘Towards a theory of radical kinship’ (Race & Class, 2023).