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"Jordanians Can Take a Joke, Comics Find" This is a NY Times article about the 2nd annual Amman Stand up Comedy Festival held in December 2009. The page also contains audio clips of the comedy from the festival. |
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"Arab Jokes You Can Laugh At" Article from PBS.com about the 7th annual NY Arab-American Comedy Festival |
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"Arab-American Comedy in a Post-9/11 World" This is a great article about the 6th Annual NY Arab-American Comedy Festival which appeared in Time magazine. |
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"Interview with Comedian Dean Obeidallah" This is an interview that appeared in the UK's Global Herald |
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NPR Segment: "What would you ask an Arab?" This is a segment we did for the national NPR show "All Things Considered" where they put my friend Maysoon Zayid and I in a Mexican restaurant in Washington DC with a big sign "Ask an Arab" and invited people to ask us questions. They also did a video segment you can see at the above link as well as hear the radio segment. |
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"Arab-American Comedy Fest Returns To TriBeCa" This is a story about the 7th annual NY Arab-American Comedy Festival which aired on NY1. |
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My Blog entries for The Huffington Post I hope u will check out my blog entries on The Huffington Post |
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| "Arab-American Comics Cross Over" This is an article from Backstage about the rise of Arab-American comedians which also discusses the 7th annual NY Arab-American Comedy Festival. |
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Appearance on AAI's TV show This my appearance on the Arab-American Institute's cable TV show "Viewpoint" hosted by Jim Zogby discussing the "Arabs Gone Wild" Tour and "Stand up For Peace." This show airs in the US and Middle East. |
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"Stand-up comedy in the Middle East" This is a National Public Radio story about the 2nd Annual Amman Stand Up Comedy Festival |
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"Arab Humor . . . No Joke" This is very well written article by Melik Kaylan about the 6th Annual NY Arab-American Comedy Festival which appeared in The Wall Street Journal. |
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"Comedians joke about cultures" This is an article from the Penn State school paper about our "Stand Up For Peace" show at Penn State in October 2009 |
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"Arab comics rewrite script for Obama" This is an article in the Abu Dhabi newspaper "The National" about the 6th Annual NY Arab-American Comedy Festival held in May 2009. |
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"Breaking Barriers" This is an article about the 6th annual NY Arab-American Comedy Festival that I co-produce. |
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"Arabs enjoy a bit of comic relief" This article about the 2008 Amman Stand Up Comedy Festival appeared on the front page of The Washington Times. |
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PBS' Frontline: The Arab-American View: From a Comedic Perspective In this video dispatch, reported by FRONTLINE/World fellow Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, with additional reporting by Yasmina Hatem, the funny and finicky Dean Obeidallah speaks candidly about how his Arab identity affects his comedy routines and riffs on the way the word "Muslim" has become a derogatory term in this Presidential election. |
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"Cairo Stands up for Comedy" Here is an article about our "Arabs Gone Wild" show in Cairo which drew over 4,000 people! This review appeared in "The Daily News Egypt." |
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"Making Jordan Laugh" This is an article from "The Jordan Times" about the sold out shows I performed in Amman, Jordan with Maysoon Zayid and Aron Kader. |
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"Obeidallah Rocks Dixon Hall" Check out this article from the Tulane University school paper about my show at Tulane. |
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"Mining the Middle East for Laughs" Check out this Newsweek article by Lorraine Ali about the Comedy Central.com show I co-created with Max Brooks called "The Watch List." This is the first show ever released by a major American entertainment company to star all Middle Eastern-American performers. |
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"Hitting the Funny Bones of Contention" Check out this Washington Post article by Paul Farhi about the Axis of Evil Comedy Tour and how it "Detonates Some Explosive Stereotypes." |
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"Muslim-American Comics Get Their Humor On" This is Beliefnet.com's review of the PBS TV special I was featured in about the rise of Middle Eastern-American comedians. |
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"Comedians as Activists, Challenging Prejudice" This is a NY Times article by Felicia Lee about the "Axis of Evil" TV special I appeared in on Comedy Central along with Ahmed Ahmed, Aron Kader and Maz Jobrani. The "Axis of Evil" DVD is available for sale on Amazon.com. |
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Associated Press article about Comedy Central's "The Watch List" Check out this Associated Press article about the new groundbreaking Comedy Central.com show "The Watch List" starring all Middle Eastern-American comics. |
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NY Times - "An Arab Who Wields a Rapier Wit" Check out this NY Times profile by Clyde Haberman about my work as a comic and my one man show "I Come in Peace." |
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"Arab Comedians Bring Down House" This is an article about my show at Princeton University which appeared in "The Daily Princetonian." |
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'Get Your Arab On': Comedians chip away at ethnic fears This is a great article about the 4th annual NY Arab-American Comedy Festival in the national Christian Science Monitor. |
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"Jewish, Arab Comics Co-Exist Onstage" Check out this article from Columbia University's paper about the show I created with Jewish-American comedian Scott Blakeman called Stand up for Peace. Our show hopes to encourage a dialogue in support of peace in the Middle East and foster understanding between Arab and Jewish-Americans. |
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ARABIAN NIGHTS Time Out NY's article previewing the 4th annual NY Arab-American Comedy Festival which I co-founded with Maysoon Zayid. |
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"Coexistence comedy" This article about Comedy Central's "The Watch List" that I'm co-producing with Max Brooks appeared in one of Israel's biggest newspapers. |
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Vanity Fair magazine (Italian version) article about me and my one man show "I Come in Peace" This is a profile of me that appeared in the Italian version of Vanity Fair. It's in Italian which made my mother very happy! (It's a PDF which you download will download when you click above). |
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PBS' NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Check out my appearance on PBS' the "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer." I was part of a panel discussion on how the world has changed after 9/11. |
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NY1 cable news story about one man show "I Come in Peace" This NY1 cable news story profiles the run of my one man show "I Come in Peace" in a segment entitled: "New Off-Off Broadway Shows Use Humor To Break Down Stereotypes." You can read and watch the news story which aired on NY1. |
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"Fighting Fear with Punch lines" - NJ's Bergen Record and Herald News article about my one man show "I Come in Peace" This news story is about the Off-Broadway run of my one man show "I Come in Peace." (This is a PDF which will download when you click above) |
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L.A. Times - "Never Fear, Its Just Funny" Here is an LA Times' article I'm featured about the NY Arab-American Comedy Festival in Los Angeles. |
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L.A. Daily News - "Arab-American Comics Take Direct Aim At Funny Bones To Take on Stereotypes" Click the link above to read a review of the NY Arab-American Comedy Festival show in Los Angeles that appeared on the front page of the Los Angeles Daily News. |
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CNN's "American Morning's AM Pop" segment Click on the link above for a transcript from my recent appearance on CNN's AM Pop segment. My segment is near the end of the transcript. Also you can view a clip of this interview on my Video & Audio page. |
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CNN International's "Your World Today" Read the transcript of my appearance on CNN International's "Your World Today." (I am a guest near the end of this transcript.) |
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Editorial from Topeka-Capitol Journal - "Arab-American Comedians - That's Funny" This is an editorial from Kansas' Topeka-Journal in which their paper's editors praise the New York Arab-American Comedy Festival. |
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Associated Press - "Arab-American Comedians Find the Funny in a Time of Fear" This AP article about the New York Arab-American Festival which I was featured in was reprinted in newspapers across the US, including the LA Times, Chicago Tribune and NY's Newsday. |
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NY Daily News - "Arab-American Comics Find Cause to Laugh" Check out this article I'm featured in from New York's Daily News. |
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North Jersey news This is an in-depth article from one of NJ's top papers about me and fellow comic Maysoon Zayid. |
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