At 7:00 p.m. on Tues., Mar. 4, Tacomans will have a rare opportunity to hear Dr. Abdelfattah Abusrour of Palestine, who was elected to an Ashoka Fellowship in 2006.  --  Dr. Abusrour will speak at Tacoma's oldest church, First Congregational (at the corner of Division and "J"), on "Giving Hope to Young Lives Through Art."[1]  --  Dr. Abusrour, affectionately known as Abed, uses activities like sports, the arts, and theater to give children forms of self-expression that are an alternative to violence.  --  He complements these programs by training parents and community members in non-violent resistance.  --  He tours internationally with his children's theater group, the Al-Rowwad Palestinian Children's Theater, to raise awareness and garner support for his efforts.  --  Dr. Abusrour recently wrote:  "Arts are such amazing tools and ways that shows what beauty and humanity we have inside everyone of us, illuminating us in the darkness of injustice, ignorance, and intolerance...   When we tour in different countries, I usually take my young people to go into difficult neighborhoods, to show them they are not alone in their struggle to have their rights and justice...  Our main problem is Israeli occupation, but even in 'rich countries,' and 'free countires' a lot of children, young people, and adults do not have their rights, their health insurance, their homes...  Our way to break also the stereotypes and share with others... Arts make people closer to each other...  They are like love, showing to us the beauty of those who we love and masking everything else." ...