“When We Cease To Speak”: A Graphic Recording by Jana Traboulsi

Originally published in Rusted Radishes: Beirut Literary and Art Journal

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This piece is part of “Transgenerations,” 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 reimagine the past and challenge dominant narratives. The series is curated by Sara Mourad and Rima Rantisi and supported by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the American University of Beirut. “When we Cease to Speak” was a lecture by Adania Shibli delivered in Beirut in March 2024 at the American University of Beirut. 

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Jana Traboulsi is an artist, designer, and academic. She is assistant professor of graphic design at the American University of Beirut. In 2014, she co-founded the art collective Sigil, based between Beirut and New York. She is the co-founder of Bidayat Pan-Arab Quarterly, and the art director of Snoubar Bayrout publishing house. Her artist book The Book of Margins, shortlisted for the Jameel Prize 2021, has been exhibited at the Victoria & Albert museum, London.

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