It was the winter of 2022 when tragedy struck. Amanat's younger brother, Abeer, a journalist, was killed in a protest gone wrong. The official report called it a "misfire." The truth was muddied, like much else in the country at that time.
For weeks, Amanat didn't speak. She didn't draw. The world that had once been alive in her sketchbooks went blank.
Then one night, she opened her brother's old voice notes. In one of them, he had said:
"You see the world differently, Didi. You don't shout. But your silence - it's the loudest scream I've ever heard. Promise me, if something happens to me, you'll draw. Tell the world what I couldn't."
That night, she started her most powerful work.