Myriam Amri

Myriam Amri is an anthropologist, writer and visual artist from Tunis. Her work investigates money, capitalism and coloniality from North Africa outwards. Her current book project is an ethnography of Tunisia’s national currency, using money to tell a different story of revolution and its disillusions. In it, she devises a method to follow the money, from the vaults of a Central Bank to illicit circulations at borderlands. Her creative works use ethnographic, material and archival methods to explore the quotidian in times of ruptures and crises. She is the co-founder of the experimental literary collective Asameena and holds a PhD in Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University.