Resisting with the pencil: Art as a language of hope in Gaza ...Kuwait

"I try to keep my humanity alive through drawing and teaching children," says Basel El Maqosui, a Palestinian artist living in Gaza who has survived bombings. "I search for stores that sell drawing materials," he explains. "I have managed to buy paper and charcoal pencils but cannot paint in colour: everything around me is black, frightening, terrifying and violent. "This led me to depict scenes of everyday life with a charcoal pencil," Basel tells The New Arab. "Who will gather the pieces of a child who has lost his parents, of a man who has lost his wife or of a mother who has lost her children and her newborn? During the ethnic cleansing that Israel is carrying o

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