A Collapsing Performance of A Collapsing Lexicon  أداءٌ ينهار لـ معجم منهار

Video design and visual adaptation of the publication A Collapsing Lexicon. Directed by Hashem Adnan and performed by Fatima Mroueh and Nassim Banna.

Based on a number of terms that have shifted, reversed, or acquired new meanings since the economic crisis began making itself felt in 2019, A Collapsing Lexicon interrogates the political character of words and images by exploring language’s entanglement with Lebanon’s economic collapse.


The book was created by Hashem Adnan, Cynthia Kreichati, Lina Mounzer, Rami Rajeh, Jana Traboulsi. An initiative from The Laab, with support from the OSUN Center for Human Rights & the Arts at Bard College.Online publication ︎