Beautiful Resistance: A Call to Arts

“Each of us is a change-maker,” said Dr. Abdelfattah Abusrour to a 60-person crowd at Trinity Episcopal Church last Tuesday night. “Nobody is born with genes of hatred or violence. We are human beings.”

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Abusrour’s lecture served as a call to arts. In his first visit to Santa Barbara, Abusrour — the founder of the Al-Rowwad Cultural and Theatre Training Center in the West Bank’s Aida Refugee Camp — wanted to make one thing clear amid all the blurriness of the Israel-Palestine conflict: the kids deserve better.