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Podcast: Immigrant Jam
Episode: "You Can't Hate Yourself Into Healing" Feat. Egyptian-Canadian Comedian Salma Hindy
Description: Salma Hindy is an Egyptian-Canadian comedian who opens for Chelsea Handler regularly, is a writer on Ramy Youssef's new animated show and has an album out called "Born On 9/11". We talk about her parents emigrating from Egypt to Canada, her father becoming an Imam in Toronto, growing up wearing the hijab, not being allowed to talk to the neighbors and being ashamed of herself. Salma has gone from being a 30 year old biomedical engineer who had never kissed a boy to performing in front of thousands of people and finding humor in her pain. She tells me...