LONDON: As children in the Gaza Strip return to school after nearly three years of disruption, they are also turning up at artist Maysa Yousef’s door with their plain, light-blue backpacks, distributed by aid agencies, and specific requests for decoration: a rocket ship, perhaps, or a princess, a horse. When Yousef hands the bags back, transformed with the images they chose, the children leave smiling and hugging them tightly. “I’m trying to make children happy and make them feel that their scho

Source: Arab News