A festivalgoer looks at the paitings of Afhgan asylum seeker Mursal Faqirzada at the Sziget music festival in Budapest, Hungary, August 8, 2019. Picture taken August 8, 2019. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - A young Afghan woman, who has been in a holding camp for asylum seekers on Hungary's border for months, gets only a faraway glimpse of trees from her home in a shipping container. So she paints trees, birds and flowers to help long days pass by.
Mursal Faqirzada, 32, has been on the road from Afghanistan for over four years. She started painting in Serbia two years ago, before seeking asylum in Hungary.
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