Rolling Stone The Funny Side: Maysoon Zayid is a Palestinian Muslim with cerebral palsy from New Jersey. So, naturally, she became a stand-up comedian

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The Funny Side

Maysoon Zayid is a Palestinian Muslim with cerebral palsy from New Jersey. So, naturally, she became a stand-up comedian

By Janne Louise Andersen

She never gets nervous. yet she shakes all the time. “A bit like Shakira, a bit like Arafat,” as she puts it. To those not familiar with her, watching the comedian Maysoon Zayid on stage or on Keith Olbermann’s Countdown show on Current TV, the shaking and the twitching could appear to be serious stage fright – either that or she’s drunk.

Either would be unlikely, since Zayid is a Muslim, as well as an experienced stand-up comedian. Listening to the 33 year-old Palestinian-American combating stereotypes of Islam and Arabs with humor, touching on American political affairs, verbally frying male-dominated Hollywood, or addressing the question of Palestine and Israel, it’s hard to get a handle on her, and some come away asking, “What’s the deal with this Maysoon Zayid?”

The deal is this...READ MORE