Comedian Maysoon Zayid performs onstage at the Amman Stand-Up Comedy Festival. (Photo courtesy of Amman Stand-Up Comedy Festival) In the 2006 film Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World, Albert Brooks ...

Most ethnic groups get their own month to celebrate their culture. What do Arab-Americans get? “Orange alert,” jokes comedian Dean Obeidallah. An American born in New Jersey to a Palestinian father ...

For Palestinian American comedian Maysoon Zayid, making slightly inappropriate jokes has always been the way she copes. “The doctor who delivered me was drunk,” she said in an interview, joking about ...

On its 20th anniversary, organizers look back on a tradition that has frequently coincided with painful news events. By Christopher Kuo In 2003, with the Iraq War underway and a wave of anti-Arab ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A scene from ‘Bella.’ (photo credit: Vered Adir/Courtesy United King Films) A bold new Jewish-Arab comedy, “Bella,” uses humor to ...

The New York Arab American Comedy Festival (NYAACF) is celebrating its 20th Anniversary with a year-long tour to 5 of the most prestigious performance venues in the US. For two decades, the festival ...

Young Saudi comedian Hisham Fageeh in 2013 posted a satirical video on YouTube titled “No Woman, No Drive,” set to Bob Marley’s iconic song “No Woman, No Cry.” Within days, it got 13 million hits, ...

Dubai-based distribution and production outfit Front Row Filmed Entertainment has boarded Arab-language comedy “Abdelinho,” directed by Morocco’s Hicham Ayouch and toplined by Ali Suliman (“Tom Clancy ...

The New York Arab American Comedy Festival is back-virtually, that is--to give people some laughs during these challenging times. What began as a began this festival in 2003 only two years after 9/11, ...

http://www.arabcomedy.org/<BR><BR>Some of the guys are the ones that did the Axis of Evil/Comedy tour... I've seen Dean and Maz live they are hilarious.<BR><BR ...