The Narrative Writers and Arts Association (NALA), together with the Abha Literary Association, held a lecture yesterday titled "Memory and Postmemory in the Arabic Novel" at the association's headquarters in Abha, to mark World Novel Day.

Speaker Dr. Bayan Abu Daham discussed how memory feeds into the writing of fiction, how human and social experience shapes narrative texts, and how modern writing techniques allow novelists to reconstruct the past artistically.

She looked at the presence of individual and collective memory in Arabic fiction, the relationship between historical events and literary imagination, and the role of storytelling in revisiting human experience from different angles.

She also explained the idea of "postmemory": the passing of experiences and memories between generations, where writers recover events they did not live through themselves but received through oral accounts and family testimony.