Capturing multigenerational narratives across the Middle East to reveal our shared humanity and build pathways toward peace.
The Generations Project is a nonprofit social enterprise that documents how families across the Middle East have experienced conflict, migration, and resilience over three generations. We capture their stories — not as geopolitical data points, but as deeply human accounts of raising children, pursuing education, building homes, and holding onto hope.
What we find, again and again, is that the values connecting these families — security, family, education, dignity — are far more alike than different. Our work makes those connections visible, undeniable, and permanent.
We bring together the youngest generation from each family for a three-day design workshop. They co-create the interview frameworks, ensuring cultural authenticity and building personal investment in the process. These are not passive subjects — they are co-creators.
Each young participant interviews their parents and grandparents, capturing the family's arc across three generations. Interviews are professionally filmed, translated across Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew, and English, and curated into a growing digital archive organized by theme and country.
All generations come together for a four-day multigenerational exchange — sharing stories, discovering common ground, and building lasting relationships across national lines. The methodology is codified into a toolkit for universities and peace-building organizations worldwide.
Governments negotiate borders and ceasefires. We repair the human fabric beneath.
Stanford '29, International Relations & Middle Eastern Studies. Spent a year at King's Academy in Jordan and a summer in Marrakech, Morocco through the State Department's NSLI-Y program.
Stanford '29. Expertise in digital humanities and storytelling. Afghan American with a personal connection to multigenerational displacement. Leading the design of the digital archive, media production pipeline, and replicable toolkit.
Stanford BSc, University of Chicago MBA. 40-year career as Partner at Booz Allen Hamilton/Strategy& serving clients globally. Co-founded Full Steam Forward, a STEAM enrichment nonprofit for girls from under-resourced communities. Has lived and worked across the US, Israel, Singapore, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, and China. Speaks English, Spanish, Mandarin, and Hebrew.
The Generations Project is rooted in the Jewish value of Tikkun Olam — the moral imperative to repair what is broken. Few things are more broken today than the human relationships across the Middle East. We believe that the act of truly listening to another family's generational story — across language, nationality, and historical grievance — is itself an act of repair. Humanity's oldest technology, storytelling, deployed to heal humanity's deepest wounds.
We are seeking families, student collaborators, media partners, and supporters who believe that stories can change the world. The pilot launches in 2026.