Drawing inspiration from her native Beirut, Zena Assi’s work portrays the socio-cultural aspects and intense emotions of contemporary urban society such as migration and memory. Inspired by Goya in both his depiction of the suffering and the medium of his work, Assi illustrates the corruption-made humanitarian crisis facing present day Lebanon. Her etchings with hand colored aquatint, entitled Ecce Homo, draw parallels with the past and the cyclical nature of history.