Syrians in America

Kinan Azmeh, a Syrian clarinet player who lives in New York, performs at Germany’s Morgenland Festival Osnabrück in 2010.

This celebrated clarinetist worries Trump’s border rules could bar him from going home to New York

Music

Update: Syrian clarinet player Kinan Azmeh said on Thursday that he made it back to New York.

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