Amid the Ruins: A Gaza Artist Fights Oblivion with Color

Deir al-Balah / Gaza / PNN/

Amid the rubble of her destroyed home in Deir al-Balah, Palestinian visual artist Maysa Yousef continues her creative journey, determined to defy the devastation that war has brought to her life and her three children.

Born in Gaza in 1984, Yousef holds a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from Al-Aqsa University. For more than a decade, she has experimented with collage art—an expressive form rooted in cutting, gluing, and repurposing everyday…