What I didn’t know as a child was that this gentle figure was, in many ways, a rebel. Mustafa Monwar’s art was never just about puppets or paintings. It was about freedom, about expression, and about ...

We thought, there is something so cuddly and warm and comforting about puppets when we pondered the notorious tale of Pinocchio — why would he want to be a real boy? Dark thoughts did then come — we ...