On a recent Friday morning, the Arab-Israeli writer Sayed Kashua, 38, wearing jeans and a Superman T-shirt, slouched forward over a tiny outdoor table at the Cafe Hillel located in an upscale ...

For more than a decade, the comedy franchise Arabs Are Not Funny has been flipping a tired stereotype on its head. The deliberately provocative title plays on a lazy caricature—that Arabs are ...

But, instead of me trying to be funny, I’m going to let the funny man himself, Dean Obeidallah, tell you about one of his precious comedy babies — the “NYAACF” — which is in its seventh year. Before ...

An Arab-American couple kisses on a train when they suddenly spot four suspicious Arabs – with odd luggage and argyle knit sweaters. Should they report them as terrorists? “Who has blueberry luggage?” ...

From The Wall Street Journal: In the end, what mars the Arab-American Comedy Festival is the danger to your health: The laughs come so thick and fast that there’s no chance to breathe for minutes at a ...

Comedians from around the United States came to New York recently [Nov. 14-19] for the fourth annual Arab-American Comedy Festival. The event featured six nights of stand-up comedy, films and theater ...

HAIFA, Israel, Jan. 18 (UPI) -- Arab comedians in Israel find a home for their ironic, dark humor of checkpoints, torture and suicide bombings. Ayman Nahas and Hanna Shammas pack theatres in Israel ...

Heard the one about Arabs not being funny? One group of UK-based comedians certainly has. And that is why they plan to take to the stage later this week to prove that this one-liner is very much a ...

From Egypt to Saudi Arabia to Jordan, huge audiences turn out to laugh at American comedians and at themselves. American-style stand-up comedy, it turns out, is a new funny business in the Middle East ...

NEW YORK — Four years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, a cadre of Arab American actors and comedians is finding growing success mining personal experiences for material. Perhaps nowhere is ...