Artist Diala Brisly fled Syria in 2013. She now lives in Beirut but she's well known inside Syria for her work on a children's magazine that, amazingly, is still printed and distributed inside the country. Here's her story in her own words, followed by some examples of her work. The magazine is called Zayton and Zaytonah - like Olive and Oliver, a boy and a girl. There are a lot of olive trees and
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