TAIZ, Yemen — Standing before her impressive depiction of a Yemeni woman shepherd, Maha Al-Shaibani squints her eyes as she giggles nervously under her face-veil.
The shy 24-year-old had only sketched pictures by pencil until trying her hand at painting in a mural wrapping around a noisy intersection in Taiz, a city in southern Yemen. "This is the first time that I used real paints. I started to mix them together," Al-Shaibani said. "Playing with colors shows your personality."
