Violent resistance and nonviolent resistance share one very important thing in common: They are both a form of theater seeking an audience to their cause.

If we don't pay attention to [nonviolent protests], they are invisible, and it's as if they never happened. But I have seen first hand that if we do, they will multiply.

Where is the Palestinian Gandhi?

Violent resistance and nonviolent resistance share one very important thing in common: They are both a form of theater seeking an audience to their cause.

When I was 17, I came to the U.S. to study Middle Eastern history and politics at Columbia University.

Violence and nonviolence are, after all, two different forms of theater. They both depend and thrive on the response of an audience.

Non-violence is not glamorous, and you don't see the effects right away.