Myriam Francois-Cerrah is a Franco-British writer, broadcaster and academic on issues related to Islam, France and the Middle E.
Education
Francois-Cerrah is studying for a Doctor of Philosophy at Oxford University in Oriental Studies focused on Islamic political movements in Morocco.
She has an Master of Arts with honours in Middle East politics from Georgetown University, and a Bachelor from Cambridge University in Social and Political science.
Career
She writes a monthly column for the New Statesman online and is also a regular contributor to Middle East Eye. Francois-Cerrah currently works as a freelance journalist, in both print and broadcast media. Her articles have been featured in The Guardian, The Huffington Post, New Statesman, Your Middle East, The London Paper, Jadaliyya, American Broadcasting Company, The Daily Telegraph, Salon, Index on Censorship, the F-Word and the magazine Emel.
She is the presenter of a British Broadcasting Corporation documentary on the genocide at Srebrenica, which aired on British Broadcasting Corporation 1 on Monday 6 July 2015.
She is a former correspondent for the Huffington Post (2014-2015), where she broke a headline story on an exclusive 36-page document written by alleged al-Qaeda kingpin Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. She has worked as a programme researcher at the British Broadcasting Corporation, and currently works as a freelance programme producer on First Rate (at Lloyd's) Jazeera’s Head to Head (since 2013).
She is former assistant editor and features writer at Emel magazine (2008–2009). She is a regular guest on British Broadcasting Corporation Big Questions (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011) and Sunday Morning Live.
She has appeared on Newsnight (2009), 4thought.tv (2011), British Broadcasting Corporation News (2010), Crosstalk (2010), British Broadcasting Corporation Radio (2012), Sky News and documentaries including Divine Women, presented by Bettany Hughes.
In 2012, she commented the French presidential elections for Sky News, as well as the French presidential inauguration and 2012 local elections and regularly comments on current affairs, in particular related to France or the Middle East. She previously worked as a Research Assistant at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS), Georgetown University (2005-2007) in Washington District of Columbia. While undertaking her doctorate, Francois also works as an academic tutor in the Oxford University Department for Politics and International Relations, where she teaches Middle East politics. She has guest lectured at universities including Harvard University (2014), Birmingham, (2014), Luther College (2015) and an annual guest lecture at Kingston University, United Kingdom (2012-2014).
She is due to deliver a lecture as part of the 2015-2016 Ebor Series at York Street John University.
Personal At the time, she was a skeptical Roman Catholic.