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Maysoon Zayid (Arabic: ميسون زايد) is an American actress and comedian. Of Palestinian descent, she is known as one of America's first Muslim women comedians.
Bay Ann’s life is far from perfect, but she glows through it anyway with a lot of help from her friends. May Bay Ann inspire you to shine as sparkly as she does. Not because she is disabled, but because she is exactly who she wants to be. Read more & order at ShinyMisfits.com!
Apr 16, 2018 · Zayid, a Palestinian American, said that in this moment, “comedy is the ideal language to discuss something nobody wants to hear.” After her TED Talk, this North Jersey woman soared to fame. What’s happened since?
Maysoon Zayid is a comedian, actress, writer, and disability advocate. She is a graduate of Arizona State University and a Princeton Fellow. Maysoon is the co-founder/co-executive producer of the New York Arab American Comedy Festival and The Muslim Funny Fest.
I shake all the time," Maysoon Zayid announces at the beginning of this exhilarating, hilarious talk. (Really, it's hilarious.) "I'm like Shakira meets Muhammad Ali." With grace and wit, the Arab-American comedian takes us on a whistle-stop tour of her adventures as an actress, stand-up comic, philanthropist and advocate for the disabled.
A Palestinian woman from New Jersey, Zayid jokes about her family, global culture, and her life with cerebral palsy. Along with Dean Obeidallah, she founded the New York Arab-American Comedy Festival, now in its 10th year.
Maysoon Zayid is known for You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008), Pandora (2022) and Cripfished (2023).
Mar 17, 2016 · Born and raised by Palestinian parents in Cliffside Park, New Jersey, Maysoon Zayid grew up spending summers at the West Bank. With one foot in Palestine and the other in the United States, Zayid’s bicultural upbringing exposed her at a young age to just how diverse the world can be.
Nov 15, 2023 · Our twenty-second pathbreaker is Maysoon Zayid. Born in New Jersey with cerebral palsy in 1974 to immigrant Palestinian Muslim Arab parents, Maysoon is a comedian, actress, writer, and disability advocate.
Nov 11, 2018 · Maysoon Zayid: 'I'm the American you don't think is American' The Muslim standup is on a mission to change the way America thinks about disability. She talks cerebral palsy, sitcom and hating...
