Myriam Dalal is an Arab researcher and writer. Her work draws on participatory practices, public history, and artistic research to document absence and silence in contexts of political violence. At the newly established Migrant Futures Institute, part of Goldsmiths, the University of London, she leads the project The Virtual House of the Rejected, which proposes the co-creation of an affective archive with survivors, witnesses, and family members of people who went missing in the Mediterranean Sea over the past decade. Dalal has been constantly on the move as an “Alien” academic in Europe for the past 6 years.