Palestine Comedy Night

Suzie Afridi was born and raised in teeny tiny Jericho, Palestine under the Israeli Occupation. She recently gave it a google review.  She gave it zero out of five stars.  She attended San Jose State University then pretended to be a tax professional until her husband decided on a whim to move to Dubai.  She lived in Dubai for three years doing random jobs, none of which made her Pakistani in-laws proud.  In 2007, she delivered a boy in a government hospital in Dubai, she misses their food to this day. In 2008, the little family of three moved to NYC.  In 2013, she started doing stand up because no one read her blog.  In 2017 she toured a story with The Moth and it aired on Valentine’s day this year.  In 2019, she had another boy and she is raising two only children.  When she is not doing stand up, she pretends to exercise and is producing a storytelling show titled Memory Keepers.  Her long term goal is to entertain from bed. She is available for any kind of event, seriously, anything.  @SuzieSaysSo

Eman El-Husseini is a Canadian-Palestinian comedian based in NY. She has performed at the prestigious Just For Laughs festival in her hometown Montreal, as well as Toronto and Sydney, Australia. Eman has performed in Palestine and concluded her 2nd tour in SE Asia.

Demetrius Fields was born in Windsor, Ontario, and raised in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan. He has made a name for himself in New York City where he can be seen performing regularly at New York Comedy Club, The Grisly Pear Comedy Club, Flophouse Comedy Club, and The Stand. Demetrius has gained a massive following of over 3 million people and over 1.5 billion views on TikTok. Demetrius has performed at colleges across the United States. He has won stand-up comedy competitions, including Mark Ridley’s “Detroit to L.A.” competition, and featured at the New York Comedy Festival, and Big Pine Comedy Festival.

Nina Kharoufeh is an Arab-American Muslim stand-up comedian, author, and amateur boxer who quite literally wears her religion on her sleeve — well, her head. She’s worn a hijab since the age of 13 and never let it get in the way of being unapologetically herself, no matter the odds.

A graduate of Montclair State University’s College of the Arts with a Bachelor’s degree in Media, Ninadiscovered her passion for comedy and has since performed across the U.S. and internationally. Her stand-up draws heavily from her lived experience, exploring identity, faith, and the everyday absurdities of trying to live a “normal” life when the world has other plans.

Her debut children’s book, I’m a Princess Too, centers on a young Muslim girl navigating that same balance and is available wherever books are sold. Nina has been featured on The Food Network, TRT, and Al Jazeera, and previously hosted her own show on TLC. She has opened for comedians including D.L. Hughley, Godfrey, Bassem Youssef, and more.

Dean Obeidallah is a lawyer turned writer, radio host and award-winning comedian. His radio program, The Dean Obeidallah Show can be heard nightly across the United States and in Canada on SiriusXM. He writes weekly for MSNBC.com and CNN.com on issues from politics to comedy to the Muslim community. Dean was one of the stars of Comedy Central’s Axis of Evil special and has appeared on Comics Unleashed, ABC’s The View, Good Morning America and frequently on MSNBC. In addition, Dean co-directed/co-produced the comedy documentary, The Muslims are Coming! designed to combat anti-Muslim bigotry and co-created “Stand up for Peace” to bring Muslims, Jews, Christians and all people together to laugh.

Atheer Yacoub is a Brooklyn-based comedian and writer, who has performed across the U.S. on stage and on screen. Her half-hour stand-up special premiered on Comedy Central Arabia in 2018, and was broadcast for a global, multilingual audience across the Middle East. She’s been featured on AXSTV’s Gotham Comedy Live, at SF Sketchfest, at The Boston Comedy Festival and many more.  Atheer also served as a staff writer for sketch shows like The Breakdown and Passport Control on Brooklyn’s Emmy award-winning network BRIC TV. She is also the co-creator and co-host of the critically-acclaimed sketch comedy show, Muslim Girls DTF: Discuss Their Faith, on FUSE TV, which has won numerous awards including Series Fest Best: Independent Comedy Writing, Yes And…Laughter Lab competition, and The Pop Culture Collaborative’s Becoming America Fund.

Maysoon Zayid is a comedian, actress, writer, and disability advocate. She is a graduate of Arizona State University and a Princeton Fellow. Maysoon is the co-founder/co-executive producer of the New York Arab American Comedy Festival and The Muslim Funny Fest. She was a full-time On Air Contributor to Countdown with Keith Olbermann and a columnist for The Daily Beast. She has appeared on 60 Minutes, CNN, ABC News, and Oprah Winfrey Networks. Maysoon had the most viewed TED Talk of 2014 and was thrilled to collaborate with Huda Beauty.

As a professional comedian, Maysoon has sold out top New York clubs and has toured extensively at home and abroad. She was a headliner on the Arabs Gone Wild Comedy Tour and The Together Live Tour. Maysoon appeared alongside Adam Sandler in You Don’t Mess With the Zohan and has written for Glamour magazine. She limped in New York Fashion Week and is a recurring character on General Hospital. She is the author of the best-selling memoir Find Another Dream and is collaborating with Scholastic on her debut comic book Shiny Misfits.