Mariam Agha

Mariam Agha

Mariam Agha is a Ph.D. student in Sociology and a teaching and research fellow at Ibn Haldun University in Istanbul, Turkey. She graduated from the American University in Cairo with high honors in Anthropology and a minor in Political Science. She then finished her Masters in Sociology at Ibn Haldun University. Her current research focuses on exiled artists living in Istanbul; the relationship between art, political affectivity, and subjectivity formation in exile through an ethnographic study of Egyptian and Syrian filmmakers and visual artists.