“Transgenerations” is a series of talks and texts by women writers on their search for the discarded traces of the past and their experimentation with forms of retrieval and narration. Inspired by their archival scholarship and work in memoir, biography, and fiction, it showcases modes of writing minor histories that challenge dominant narratives. Through talks, essays, short stories, interviews, and roundtable discussions, writers reflect on the creative and imaginative practices of writing across times.
Curated by Sara Mourad and Rima Rantisi, this webzine series features contributions by Adania Shibli, Iman Mersal, Zeina Halabi, Lana Dee Povitz, Liz Kinnamon, and others. Published in installments and accompanied by original artworks, their pieces grapple with questions of lineage and inheritance, but also of loss, erasure, and their transmission across generations. Readers are confronted with new visions of the past, and they are invited to contemplate the multiple temporalities that appear through writing.
“Transgenerations” is sponsored by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the American University of Beirut, and supported by the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies, the Department of English, and the Women and Gender Studies Program.
