Filmed at Olympia Hall in Paris, Tryin’ arrives as Arab comedians push for greater recognition on global stages ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Young Saudi comedian Hisham Fageeh in 2013 posted a satirical video on YouTube titled “No Woman, No Drive,” set to Bob Marley’s ...

Leading Middle East streamer MBC Shahid has picked up Lebanese comedian John Achkar's stand-up comedy special "Tryin'" ("Aam ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The New York Arab American Comedy Festival 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 has upheld ...

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, ...

When Dean Obeidallah and Maysoon Zayid created the Arab American Comedy Festival in 2003, they weren’t expecting it to be around 20 years later. They had more pressing concerns, like presenting Arab ...