Via: Arts Journal:
A few minutes ago, we reached the flute virtuoso Boujemaa Razgui
by phone to discuss the assault on his instruments by US Customs at JFK
airport.
A Canadian citizen, based in New York and with a green card
employment permit, Bouzemaa was flying home from Marrakech, Morocco,
when his baggage was opened by Customs at JFK.
‘I told them I had these instruments for many years and flew
with them in and out,’ he said. ‘There were 11 instruments in all. They
told me they were agricultural products and they had to be destroyed.
There was nothing I could do. The ney flute can be made with bamboo. Is
that agricultural?’
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