Myriam Amri is an anthropologist, filmmaker, and visual artist. She is currently a PhD candidate in the joint degree in Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies. Her scholarship investigates the articulations between money, the economy, and global capitalism from North Africa. Through ethnographic, multimodal, and archival research, her dissertation examines the making of Tunisia’s official currency – its institutions and policies – in relation to its subversions – the informal, illicit, and illegal. In addition, she has published on border economies, inflation, environmental degradation, photography and visual methods, and the colonial histories of fire and coral in the Mediterranean. Her recent writings have appeared in Anthropology of the Middle East, NiCHE, and Kohl Journal.

As a filmmaker and visual artist, her creative practice explores intimacy as resistance against the backdrop of capitalist crises and environmental dystopias using moving-image, film photography, installations, and sound. Her creative works have been part of the Protocinema exhibition in New York, Savvy Contemporary in Berlin, the Jaou Biennale in Tunis, and the NYU Gallatin Galleries. She’s the co-founder of the experimental Arab literary collective « Asameena » and is a 2024 artist in residence at the Swiss Arts Council.