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 ...

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 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 ...