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Podcast: Bleav in The Comedy Bureau Field Report
Episode: Ep. 199: Atheer Yacoub & Finding Palestinian Comedy in the American World
Description: Atheer Yacoub has survived starting in and coming up through the NYC comedy scene over the last 15 years, which is a daunting feat unto itself. Yacoub also happens to be Palestinian and has survived living in Palestine under the shadow of an ever-encroaching Israel as well as, of all places, Alabama, bringing her comedy to the forefront at this current moment.
As one of the headliners of the upcoming 20th Arab American Comedy Festival, Yacoub talks, on this week's TCB Field Report how the Arab visibility brought about by that very festival (where she now is on...