Editor's Note: This story was produced with the support of the Round Earth Media Program of the International Women Media Foundation. Rawya El Chab showed up to an interview in Brooklyn in February after teaching her performance class for children in Sunset Park. Many of her students have parents who are immigrants. In recent months, some have been uncharacteristically silent. When El Chab asked, they said they were afraid of ICE taking their family members. It reminded her of living in Beirut under Syrian and later Israeli occupation in the 1980s. “We could feel the presence of a force that was censoring our speech,” she said. That sense of being surveilled is all too familiar. It has become a throughline in much of the work the 45-year-old artist has produced in the last two decades.…