Celebrating Women's History Month by celebrating the GREAT Palestinian-American stand-up comedian Maysoon Zayid

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Maysoon Zayid is an actress and professional standup comedian, who received her BFA in acting from Arizona State University. She is the co-founder and co-executive producer of the New York Arab American Comedy Festival and can be seen on Comedy Central's The Watch List, PBS's America at a Crossroads: Muslim Comics Stand Up, and in Adam Sandler's You Don't Mess With Zohan. In the fall of 2006, Maysoon debuted her one-woman show Little American Whore at LA's Comedy Central Space which was produced and directed by the legendary Kathy Najimy. In 2008, her screenplay LAW was chosen for the Sundance Screenwriters Lab and is now slated to begin production with Maysoon as the lead in the fall of 2009.

As a professional comedian, Maysoon has performed stand-up in top New York clubs, and has toured extensively in the USA as well as Europe, Africa, And the Middle East. She has also appeared on As The World Turns, Law & Order, MTV, NBC Nightly News, CNN, ABC's 20/20, The New York Times, and WashingtonPost.com.

Maysoon is a graduate of The Hala Salaam Maksoud Foundation for Arab-American Leadership and a delegate from the great state of NJ to the 2008 Democratic National Convention. She spends 3 months a year in Palestine where she runs Maysoon's Kids, a scholarship and wellness program for disabled and wounded refugee children and orphans.

For more information about Maysoon go to www.maysoon.com.

In this photo: Maysoon Zayid (Photo: Andrew H. Walker) 2009 Doha Tribeca Film Festival - Day 3DOHA, QATAR - OCTOBER 30: Comedian Maysoon Zayid performs onstage at Comedy Night at the W Hotel Doha during the 2009 Doha Tribeca Film Festival on October 30, 2009 in Doha, Qatar. http://www.life.com/image/92556810


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Maysoon Zayid
Comedian/Actor

Zayid is an actress and professional stand-up comedian, who received her BFA in acting from Arizona State University.

She has performed comedy in top New York clubs, including The Improv, Caroline's, Gotham, and Stand-Up NY, and has toured her stand-up act extensively in both the U.S. and abroad.

Zayid was the first comedian to perform stand-up live in the Palestinian territories. She has performed in Nazareth, Haifa, Bethlehem, Ramallah and Jerusalem. She is a graduate of The Hala Salaam Maksoud Foundation for Arab-American Leadership.

Zayid writes the biweekly column "The Palestinian American Princess's Guide to NYC." She is also co-founder, with Dean Obeidallah, and an executive producer of the New York Arab American Comedy Festival.

In the fall of 2006, her one-woman show LITTLE AMERICAN WHORE debuted at L.A.'s Comedy Central Space. L.A.W. was produced by Kathy Najimy and directed by Abby Marateck. A film version of L.A.W. is currently in developmental pre-production. Zayid is a principal cast member in the forthcoming Adam Sandler movie, YOU DON’T MESS WITH ZOHAN.

Zayid was born in Englewood, New Jersey. She spends three months a year in the Palestinian territories, where she runs art and wellness programs for disabled and wounded refugee children and orphans. www.maysoon.com

Maysoon Zayid Performs at ATFP Fourth Annual Gala

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