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Iraqi-American Dena El Saffar
Austin - Arab Today

Before he staged a professional comeback last week, the rapper Kayem had disappeared from public life for two years.
A US citizen by birth who remembers his relatives’ suffering at the hands of Muammar Qaddafi’s regime in Libya, he was lying low on legal advice after the US authorities crippled his career by putting him on a no-fly list. He blames profiling for the scrutiny he receives at airports.
“I’ve been on lockdown,” the rapper — who used to go by Khaled M. — said at South by Southwest, the pre-eminent global media and cultural festival in Texas where he made his reappearance.
After initially planning to wait until summer, he changed his mind after President Donald Trump issued a ban on travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries in January, raising fears of future travel headaches.
Although courts subsequently suspended the ban — along with a second revised version this month — the new culture under the Trump administration is seriously complicating many travelers’ lives.
At least eight foreign performers were turned away attempting to travel to the US for South by Southwest. And among those artists who were able to play, worries are growing about how tougher immigration rules will affect their careers and the music world more broadly.
Despite the suspension of Trump’s travel bans, the president has vowed to ramp up enforcement of existing rules.
Cherine Amr, lead singer of the Egyptian-Canadian metal band Massive Scar Era, which was turned away at the border, said being denied access to US events represents a massive impediment for artists.
“Any musician here knows that in order to make it in the music business — especially for the metal scene — you have to make it in US,” she wrote on Facebook.
The festival itself was not immune from criticism. South by Southwest’s artist contract said festival officials would potentially work to deport those found violating visas it sponsored.
Some artists criticized the clause in an open letter for being tone-deaf to the political moment at best.
“In light of recent attacks on immigrant communities, this practice is particularly chilling,” they said.
South by Southwest said it has never assisted in the deportation of any artist and would review its artist contract for 2018. Artists say music provides emotional connections with people who might not otherwise be exposed to foreign cultures — especially under the current climate.
Dena El-Saffar, who was born in the US and explores her Iraqi heritage through music, says it provides a way to “diminish boundaries between people and cultures.”
For rapper Emmanuel Jal, a former child soldier from South Sudan — which is not affected by Trump’s travel ban — music helps “represent the voices of those people who are not getting heard.”
“My country’s still at war. People are still dying, kids are in refugee camps,” he said.
“If I run away from representing their voice, I run away from a responsibility.”

Source: Arab News

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