Mroué plays with images, overlapping silhouettes through a projection on prints, to highlight the repeated cycles of violence affecting people in the Middle East. By examining his own encounters with the conflict as mediated through the news, the artist serially tracks the recurring impressions of conflict. The works create an homage to the phantom presence of the dead.

Al Aqsa Park (2006) is an animated film installation where the Dome of the Rock, the symbolic referring to the Al-Aqsa complex in Jerusalem, is displayed as a fairground carousel. Although the work brings an additional reflection on the intersection of the discourses of political systems and religiosity, the Al-Aqsa Park installation is essentially centered on the idea of controlled entertainment that the experience of riding a carousel, as well as its spectacle, delivers. The carousel, conventionally the center-piece of a fair, circling at a speed to generate weightlessness and ‘freedom’, is actually a machine maneuvered by an operator, according to a tightly controlled schedule.

Al-Aqsa Mosque is the third most important mosque in Islam after al Masjid al-Haram (The Sacred Mosque) in Mecca then Al-Masjid al-Nabawi (The Prophet’s Mosque) in Medina.