Alaa Rubil, a Yemeni street artist, paints a mural on a shell-pocked building in Aden. The 30-year-old man has turned the rubble-strewn streets of the war-torn city into a semi-permanent exhibition of his work and a testament to what he and his neighbours have lived through. "I wanted to convey my message to the world by drawing people who lost their homes and families," says Rubil. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES