Author: Maya Avis

Maya Avis is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the research group, Anthropology of AI in Policing and Justice, based at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Her research is based on extensive ethnographic research. She studied for her PhD at the Graduate Institute, Geneva where her dissertation considered the organisation of the legal environment in Palestine/Israel, with a particular focus on Palestinian Bedouin land claims in the Naqab region of southern Israel and in the West Bank.

Maya Avis

Maya Avis is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the research group, Anthropology of AI in Policing and Justice, based at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Her research is based on extensive ethnographic research. She studied for her PhD at the Graduate Institute, Geneva where her dissertation considered the organisation of the legal environment in Palestine/Israel, with a particular focus on Palestinian Bedouin land claims in the Naqab region of southern Israel and in the West Bank.

Political engagements Threads

Digital Engagements

September, 2021 / By Maya Avis, Gabriela Piña, Nadine Plachta and Farida Souiah

For many social anthropologists working on different forms of political expression, online settings have become an inextricable part of their […]

Political engagements Threads

Artefacts and Repertoires

September, 2021 / By Maya Avis, Veronica Ferreri, Fuad Musallam, Ella Parry-Davies and Valentina Zagaria

After the 2011 Tunisian revolution, some of the fishermen of Zarzis – a coastal town close to the Libyan border,