March 26, 2009
Culture Clashes
Like other Americans, the playwright Jamil Khoury was horrified by the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. But as a man of Syrian descent, he was also troubled by the anti-Muslim, anti-Arab sentiment he saw spring up in the tragedy's wake.
He decided in 2002 - together with Malik Gillani, his Pakistan-born partner - to confront the burgeoning prejudice the best way he knew how: on the stage.
He founded Chicago's Silk Road Theatre Project, says Mr. Khoury, "to
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