Artists and the US Travel Ban

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As President Trump’s immigration restrictions for refugees and migrants from certain countries continue, we hear from the Syrian artist Tammam Azzam about what the policy might mean for him. After the December 2016 attack on a Christmas market in Berlin, the issue of how many refugees Germany has accepted is more potent than ever. Thalia Beaty reports on a theatre company which is trying to improve integration and understanding. Ghanaian-American writer Yaa Gyasi has scored a huge hit with her debut novel Homegoing, which traces the lives of two Ghanaian sisters caught up in the transatlantic slave trade. She tells Tina how a chance visit to a castle in Ghana inspired the story. Nigerian writer Chibundu Onuzo explains why research was so important to her while working on her latest novel, but when it came to putting herself in danger for her art, she put her foot down. With Tina Daheley. (Photo: protestors in New York Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)