Chapter 18

Beautiful Resistance—Palestine

Abdelfattah Abusrour created Alrowwad, a place to help children and women experience normalcy and to regain their inner human values while living in the middle of a conflict zone.

I want these children to grow up to be great changemakers so they can think that they can change the world without the need to carry a gun to kill anybody else in order to earn a living or to be alive. I want to help them hold on to their humanity and become role models to create a world where every day that comes is more beautiful than the day that goes before.

—Abdelfattah Abusrour

IN 1994, ABDELFATTAH ABUSROUR RETURNED TO PALESTINE AFTER nine years in France, where he had obtained his master's and PhD in biological and medical ...

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