Michaela Vatcheva/TheatreWorks Silicon Valley Vaneh Assadourian stars as Shirin, an Iranian medical student caught up in the U.S.-imposed Muslim travel ban in “A Distinct Society,” getting its world premiere at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley.
It sounds like the setting of a parable, but it’s a real place.
The Haskell Free Library and Opera House overlaps the US-Canada border, with part of the building in Quebec and part of it in Vermont. And during the previous presidential administration’s travel ban for people from a number of predominantly Muslim countries, the library became a place where families separated by the ban could see each other.
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