How Do We Remember?
Editor’s note
This issue begins with a question (and a lingering fear) that has stayed with me for years: how do we remember? Ward itself is, in many ways, an attempt at remembrance, particularly through the lens and perspectives of those pushed to the margins. Whether it is preserving the character of spaces across Jeddah’s neighborhoods, tracing the visual language of Riyadh’s billboards and signs, or photographing generations of Tabuk residents and tracing marks of childhood in Yanbu, each contribution in this issue interrogates how memory is formed and saved…continue reading
Interviews
Riyadh Fonts
An interview with Norah Almuqhim
How Can We Preserve the Character of Space?
An interview with the Saudi Ethnographic Diary
Visiting Rukn Al-Tawfiq Studio in Tabuk
An interview with Abbas (Abu Haitham)
Visuals
Accompanying Workshop:
Ward is Majlis’ March guest!
In collaboration with Majlis, Ward invites you to Archiving Memories, a workshop taking place on Tuesday (March 31, 2026) at Space 29 in Jeddah. We’ll learn and practice together some accessible and DIY methods to preserve and archive our own memories, traditions, and histories. Get a ticket to join us here!
