The children sitting around a tall rectangular table listen attentively to a Chinese artist as he shows them how to turn clay into an elephant. "You take this piece of clay and form it in a circular shape. Then you stretch it that way," Chinese artist Du Shao yong tells them, as the elephant slowly takes shape in his well-practiced hands.
“When you finish, you put wooden sticks through his stomach to help the clay stand upright," he adds in Chinese. An Arabic translator swiftly tells the children what Du just said.
