Al Solh fosters belonging not only within the comfort of her studio but also through the resiliency of her portraits. She puts faces to stories the media only dreams of vilifying and adds hope for a more positive bond between Syrian refugees and the Lebanese people as it was during her childhood. In her fight to tell the stories of not just the forgotten, but the voiceless, she breathes life into yellow notepad paper. Each is starkly different than the previous, but all wishing for new beginnings and a better home for themselves and their families. What is most profound is that she believes she is merely documenting stories, but for many, this is a type of clarity the world was in desperate need of. By making the intangibility of their strife tangible, I Strongly Believe in Our Right to Be Frivolous, changes the inherent negative connotation of the “other” and emphasizes their humanity. This is an ode to Al Solh’s Syrian heritage, and Lebanon’s continuous but also tense bond with this war-torn country.