LONDON: After being displaced 31 times in Gaza, Palestinian artist Basel El-Maqosui has another name for the places where he has sought shelter: artist residencies. Each time he has been forced to move, he says, he has carried his paints and sketchbooks with him, turning another temporary shelter into a studio. “When you are driven from your home once, it is called displacement,” El-Maqosui told Arab News. “When it happens 31 times, it becomes a journey through the geography of the soul.” Now, h
