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'Zafira' debuts at Guthrie's Dowling Studio

October 11, 2019 at 5:10AM
Filsan Said, Lina Jamoul, Rasha Ahmad Sharif and Noor Adwan in the New Arab American Theater Works' production of "Zafira and the Resistance."
Filsan Said (Leylo Khalif), Lina Jamoul (Zafira Khoury), Rasha Ahmad Sharif (Samira Kheir) and Noor Adwan (Karmel Khaled) in the New Arab American Theater Works’ production of “Zafira and the Resistance.” (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Zafira and the Resistance

Ends Oct. 27: Minnesota playwright Kathryn Haddad takes on Islamophobia and anti-immigration sentiments in her world premiere, presented by Arab American Theater Works. Teacher Zafira finds hatred entering her own high school classroom, where she and her students struggle to stem the tide. (7:30 p.m. Fri.-Sat., 7 p.m. Sun., Guthrie Theater Dowling Studio, 818 S. 2nd St., Mpls., $9-$32, 612-377-2224 or guthrietheater.org)

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