Myriam Dalal is a cultural practitioner, writer, and researcher. She holds a Ph.D. in Arts and Sciences of Art from the Sorbonne University in France (2022).While her thesis addressed the lack of iconic images remaining from the Lebanese civil war period and its impact on the society’s “collective” memory, her postdoctoral studies will focus on Public History by using coproduction and participatory practices, as she continues to explore -in her practice and research- the ways in which history can be made more accessible to the public using art as a medium.
As an academic, Dalal taught photography and arts for more than four years at two U.S. accredited universities in Lebanon, and she has been writing about arts and culture for the past 13 years for many platforms and newspapers in Arabic, English and French.
She has previously worked as part of UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage unit in Paris, the French Ministry of Foreign affairs, to help draft a cultural white book for the Mediterranean, the U.S. Embassy’s cultural affairs section in Beirut, and had several consultancy missions in the MENA region and the Arab world focusing on the preservation of cultural heritage.
Myriam is a postdoctoral researcher