Mariam Barghouti

Mariam Barghouti is a writer and researcher. She received her BA from Birzeit University in English Literature and Language with a focus on sociolinguistics, and Masters of Science from the University of Edinburgh in Sociology and Global Change with a focus on racialized hierarchies. Her academic research interests global historical sociology intra-Israeli racialization. She has worked in the fields of journalism and reporting, digital production, advocacy, and evidence based research and data analysis. She has written on socio-political developments in the Middle East with a focus on the Levant. Her political commentary was featured in Al-Jazeera English, the New York Times, the Guardian, amongst others. Her sociological research revolves around local-global social dynamics, with a focus on policy, gender, socioeconomic inequalities, and power-relations. She currently resides in Ramallah.