Egypt has selected Omar Hilal’s comedy Voy! Voy! Voy! as its candidate for Best International Feature Film at the 96th Oscars. Producers Vox Studios, Film Clinic and Image Nation Abu Dhabi announced ...

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Prominent Egyptian producer Mohamed Hefzy’s recently launched, Dubai-based Fortress Film Clinic shingle is set to make the Arab world’s first zombie comedy, “Zombie Gozombie,” to be directed by ...

The cover of Bassem Youssef's new book, "Revolution for Dummies." Courtesy of Harper Collins In his new book, "Revolution for Dummies: Laughing Through the Arab Spring," he uses the F-word as any ...

Dubai-based distribution and production outfit Front Row Filmed Entertainment has boarded Arab-language comedy “Abdelinho,” directed by Morocco’s Hicham Ayouch and toplined by Ali Suliman (“Tom Clancy ...

In a Nov. 15, 2006 file photo, Festival co-founder Dean Obeidallah performs at the Fourth Annual New York Arab-American Comedy Festival at the Gotham Comedy Club in New York. Arab-Muslim stand-up ...

The history of the Jewish people: they flee to Egypt after the destruction of the Kingdom of Judah and hang out in the desert for awhile, nothing happens for generations, Lenny Bruce is born, Woody ...

"Comedy is tragedy plus time," according to a famous quotation attributed to the actor Carol Burnett, who must never have been to Egypt in a crisis. Someone has struck back at Okasha in that ...

On a rainy Thursday evening in Manhattan, several hundred stylishly dressed young people file into the Gotham Comedy Club. As the room fills to capacity, ubiquitous pop hits by Katy Perry and Cee-Lo ...

Young Saudi comedian Hisham Fageeh in 2013 posted a satirical video on YouTube titled “No Woman, No Drive,” set to Bob Marley’s iconic song “No Woman, No Cry.” Within days, it got 13 million hits, ...