Myriam Francois-Cerrah is a writer and broadcaster with a focus on current affairs, France and the Middle East. She is currently a columnist for the New Statesman and Middle East Eye and her writing has also appeared in the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, Salon, The Independent, Al Jazeera English, The New Internationalist, Your Middle East, The London Paper, Index on Censorship, and others. She is a regular contributor to public debates on Sky News, the BBC, Channel 4 news and others and is a doctoral researcher at the University of Oxford. Her writings can be found at her blog. She tweets @MFrancoisCerrah