On October 17th 2019, the Lebanese uprising began. Decades of corruption, recurring failure, and lack of accountability among the ruling class led to massive civil protests across Lebanon. I remember entire days spent in the streets of Beirut, marching, chanting, all together. The first few weeks felt like a fleeting sense of unity, and, for a moment, everything seemed possible and we were filled with hope.

As the economic and social crisis deepened, I realized how naive it was to believe we could change everything so quickly. Yet I still cherish those moments as deeply significant—a feeling I had never experienced before, and never again with the same intensity. I believe it also marked a stronger political awakening for the post-civil war generation, both collectively and personally.

The end of the world as we knew it reflects on fragmented memories of the uprising. It can be read sequentially, as a book, or experienced as a series of individual images. The works are created in monotype, visually referencing the aesthetics of tags, graffiti, and posters that covered Beirut’s city center—tools of dissent that carried our voices, our anger, and our hope.