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Beautiful Resistance: Defying the Occupation Through the Theater and the Arts

Talk by Abdelfattah Abusrour, Al-Rowwad Cultural & Theatre Center

Wednesday, April 25, 2012
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Downstairs Lounge at the Faculty Center
UCLA

Abdelfattah Abusrour is a playwright, poet, and founder of Al-Rowwad Cultural & Theatre Center in the Aida Refugee Camp, just outside of Bethlehem in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. A founding member, co-writer & actor of “Paris Nord Theater,” Dr. Abusrour abandoned a promising academic career in the sciences to share his knowledge of the arts with the children of Aida Camp, where he grew up. He will discuss how the children's theater has empowered young Palestinians on an educational and artistic level to resist the ugliness of the occupation through non-violence & with respect to human rights & values based on the spirit of social entrepreneurship & innovation.

Cost: Free and Open to the Public

For more information please contact

Hanna Petro
Tel: (310) 825-1455
hpetro@international.ucla.edu

Sponsor(s): Center for Near Eastern Studies, Department of History