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new head comedy. so is inspired by some of the challenges and trauma as venmo face in his own life. he also lost his father at the young age, was forced to flee to the us from quade during the 1st gulf war, and navigated the us immigration system as a refugee. the show is a critical success to say the least making waves for per training and ordinary palestinian american family. and in doing so, humanizing them something that's never really been done before on tv. take out this trailer to the customer and to save your shoes on this right. so let me show you. so we took so that crap selling merchant. the only thing i could do without papers, i mean to support my family. actual emotion. it's my last 4 of my last one

is real practical is a good chair to me somebody. what does that turn to me though? please explain what's the cost of defense of a man and by the model itself is a huge problem towers that cause time downstairs a couple hours away from the palestine, texas for loans to real branding issue a phase welcome to the cell. from houston, texas mohammed, a co creator and started mo, mo, thanks so much for being with us. i don't think i've ever said most so many times in my life. more and more money, more problems just like palestine on this. oh man, it's so great to have you with us. thank you for having me. really a pleasure to be on. i have to ask you just from, from, from the get go, i want to give you an opportunity for our audience who may be living under a rock. they've never heard of the show. they don't know you. what's the show really about to me? it was clear it's, it's a labor of love to say the very least. what's it about to you?

sure. of the shows about belonging to about what the result of statements miss the, you know, the people assimilating america, fish out of water. somebody who's been struggling, trying to fit in and take care of their family while also losing themselves spiritually along the way. meaning it's very complex, there's so many layers to it, to be honest, as origin stories don't package as well the, you know, the mother story, the, the, you know, my story, my brothers, my sisters, my father's, there's so much to talk about generational displacement. it's a lot, it's, it seems like it's an immigrant shell, but it really is for everyone. anyone who has experience struggle that is going on life living paycheck to paycheck, trying to take care of their families, trying to live up to their expectations, their feelings, expectations along the way, sacrificing law, including their, their spiritual wellness, the mental health, their actual health and physical health so it's,

it's the show is very complex and it is a comedy. yeah. as hard as you start describing that shall be like, it is getting funny. like, yeah, it is gonna be very funny. there's also going to be very, very of, you know, serious attacks, very, very real, very rob, very authentic. and i think, you know, the comedy hits harder because, you know, the tragedy is so strong and i don't wanna get bogged down in the tragedy. but something that you said, you know, is about a real family with real problems that have been displaced over generations. but in a lot of ways, for as much as it's about palestine, it's also about houston. it felt in some ways, like houston this place, but the, you were raised essentially, you know, as a big character and in the series. was that intentional? absolutely. it was essentially completely by design, just as the most diverse city in america, the alias, the neighborhood, the suburb of houston that we feel most of the series in is any language is spoken and alone. there's no zoning and use. and so everybody's literally next to each

other, you're having reading these restaurant mix for assets and foods by next to a mexican church next to a, you know, out of bakery like it's, is that kind of the town and suburbs. so in such a big export of music and talent, you know, for lives or to meghan, was telling a beyond say to travis scott, robert glass for, i mean before that, but b, paul, why can keep going to this is really long. toby, who's blowing up by now measuring background, my co started the show, it just is a really unique neighborhood. it's something in the water year. and it really was shocking to me that never in houston's history. and they had a narrative sitcom filmed out of here. so it was, it was a, you know, a no brainer and a deal breaker we couldn't do it. and, and that's what it's so beautiful, you know, for as much as it's being celebrated that this is the 1st time we have this, you know, pulsing in family, a policy and in their narrative, in this depth, as you just started saying could be, could be said maybe about houston and i think that's that,

that's what makes it so palpable to me. i want to share with you a video that was sent to us by fans. someone who has a lot to say about what you've accomplished with this series. take a listen. thank you so much for representing palestinian culture in the way that you did other than something that's always seen as just struggle and heart break. i think people got to see us for who we really can be, which is just like everybody else. and i think is a branding issue. was the most genius committed, klein to summarize everything that we go through as balanced indians in our struggle. but honestly, when the credits rolled at the end and every name was arrow was palestinian was just there to be seen. i had never felt more proud, especially at a time when i'm going into the film industry. i'm going into the comedy industry and it's people like you, it's people like the people, the cast and crew that made the show come to life. how, how does it make you feel?

hearing these things. i know grace isn't the only one to ask you. i mean, yeah, how do you feel? i chose, man, i have chosen like, you know, when i 1st started to stand up as a teenage kid in the mid ninety's. yeah, yeah. i was just me in the south during south is as a mom and in texas for louisiana, arkansas, or new mexico. what have you, so they felt really lonely and to see the reception 1st of all across the board to be so well received and, and that it's inspiring people and shouldn't, because certain way, honestly, it's going to take years to truly see the impact into really like smoking in completely at this moment, right now i'm just looking around like, is this real or it's, it's pretty it's, it's really so real and you have to pinch yourself, but i couldn't be more proud. and that's what i did when i was creating the show.

and building it out and casting michelle and writing it out, every part of it, there's not one second of the series that is not with purpose. like every part of it was, was well thought out. i mean, the only one of the only criticism who i see for the house to be a mom, she was like the peter bread is not seeming like, you know, okay, well, that's the only thing i missed. then i'm so grateful to that. but it's, it's huge, it's absolutely huge and i just don't know what to say. i'm overwhelmed by it. it makes me emotional to see that because i know what it feels like to get a loan up there and right. and that feel seen, and it's just such a privilege that i, that i get to bring it to everyone. and then that's what this really is about, right? it's about that search for belonging that, that not only wanting to be seen, but seen in the true sense of that word, you know, in your entirety and your complexity. i think um, you know, a lot of people are sending us comments on youtube. but what before i get to them, i want to just ask you, i mean, you know, the trailer palestinians, and this is,

is at least to me, it seems deliberately not focused on the tragedy of something that i think too often with all the misrepresentation. whether in the news or media is what's associated with that. what's that deliberate and why was that important if it was to? and um, you know, it was important just to focus on the characters and the story. so the story is really grounded in my dna and in my experience of, of coming here though. sadly, when did you get my citizenship for 20 years and what was that like? and i think that too many times that you'll see something that's like tragedy based, or, you know, it's like a family floating to another. can country, are they going to make it? but this is really focused on the characters and what they go through. and i think it makes it way more reliable and it's yes, it's like, it's like football, but it's different as google, as far as bias is full feet. this is for us for everyone, you know, like it has to be completely related. but the way to do that is to focus on the

characters, to focus on the story and make sure that you give it time and allow it that breathing room so we can be what it is like it it's, it's a story about belonging and feeling like you're less than an and you want to be equal to the person next you. so it's just really important. just keep calling it on the characters from episode to episode and, and i digging deeper and deeper into each person. yeah. and we do get to go. so dave, even though it's, it's still seems in one and the that you know, my sense is that there's a promise of a lot more in depth to come with each character and the complexities of this world that you're in. i do it. yeah, go ahead. what you were going to say i wanted it. yeah, i want to add something that just killed. that was the most of it. i didn't want to make it a hyper political show as well. right? it's only so many cases you, you get lost and that in politics are due to personal people. and the reliability is every right and. and so like i loved the loved the miss your advert character,

where you have a passion christian and you have which i was also a forgotten thing, right. which is really upset and really that there's probably some christians that exist and that's completely lost in the conversation. and also like these relationships exist to where they can be the passion and about there's use argumentative and just like going at each other. but at the same time when the waiter comes over, he wants something to drink. he's concerned is like he would you like sugar with your coffee or not, or see or not. so to show that compassion and that relationship is also really important. just because you have heated conversations. doesn't mean you can be friends, right? and historically my mother's told me so many stories of my grandfather having friends with people across the board of both christian and jewish. and uh and, and that, that was really important for me as well to having to see who is this is a story about unification. is not yeah, something was intended to divide us. this is the opposite. i've had enough of this division quite frankly. i know a lot of people feel the same. so i just wasn't going to have that. it was serious

as well. no. and i think and such polarized times, you know, coming out of the black, the black lives matter movement and everything that's happened the last few years in the us context with president trump. there really feels like it's not a coincidence that maybe it is, but that the show is coming out at this time, you know, really cemented in black culture in houston. cemented in this solidarity that we've seen the last couple of years of palestine. i, you know, i don't think things are necessarily coincidences, but for audience who might be like one of these 2 guys talking about, let's give him a little bit about europe in trail of state. let's, let's say 2nd generation state listening. take, take a look. the was, this is now you know, generational and there's so many different ways to immigration in different ways to get your citizenship different pass so that whether it be through marriage go through this highly processed. and that was part of the story that i wanted to tell which is about then take to my experience, and there's much more to tell 22 years have been telling ourselves everything. 75.

well, it's never gonna happen. you're thing to me and your dad says, oh, they're feeling sorry for it. always says we got a on it is oh we on to carry on. i mean, it kind of been a theme, a message in the show that, that really helped me when i saw that moment for so many reasons i want to ask you off the back of that. i mean, the depiction of the us immigration system, you make a lot of social commentary in this, but the us immigration system, i, it says it says hilarious as it is heart wrenching, i'm curious. i of how was bad, just borne from your own lonely experience, navigating that a lot. i mean, the ending of episode 7 is exactly what happened to us. you know, there's a lot of it was in the series you'll see is copy paste of experience. and of course is fictionalized along the way. but it's really complex one where people think did you come migrate to america? here we go to societies or refugees are coming and, you know, just become us citizens overnight, does not out at 6 years to get

a hearing. in some cases even more. and then by the time you get a grant to asylum, it takes you 5 years to get your green card and it takes you another 5 years before you can file for your citizenship. so you can imagine. so you're looking at minimum 10 plus years right before you come, you assistant. meanwhile you're working. you are, you know, contributing, or you're paying your taxes, but you don't have any rights like everyone else does. and it puts you in a really tough situation. we're almost forces you to do things under the table and it forces you to do the legal things you don't want to do. and i think that's overall, the biggest def i have with the system that. yeah, and how long is it moved too slow, but it puts people in really bad situations where they are forced to do the legal things, potentially, which goes against their nature, goes against a moral character and goes against how they're raised on the system is set up in a way to where it made it makes it easy to, to submit those things. and you know,

i don't want to keep the kind of hammering the point. but for as much of this as a palestinian story, it's a story about immigration. it's an american story. you know, it's, it's so many different things on and what i think was so compelling and effective for a group of people that have been marginalized in the media and in the main streams . you know, especially in hollywood, you kind of made it seem like the palestinian narrative was kind of part and parcel or like in tandem with other realities in the american experience, whether brown or black working class people. do you attribute that to a success and the show is that just naturally who you are? was it intentional? was there a lot of strategy in how to, how to present the story? it is really natural, july and, and it's not something that was calculated it's, it's just how i live my life. my same group is a well rounded mixed group of individuals and it was just easier to take it that way. i mean, like i said, you annual leave in houston being one of the most diverse cities in america,

in 80 languages spoke alone. and anyway, just how i grew up and how i was raised. and i think that any time that people think of a particular experience that it's just like caught my life to that ethnic group, which is wrong. it's universal. everyone goes to the same issues and to, to, to just put it in a bucket. and i don't think it's fair, it's also not accurate. and if i tell them something in a way where it was just arabs and that's also not accurate, right. and you know, there's not how it works here. like you walk into a particular business that's owned by arabs, i guarantee you they speak spanish. speaking of the language that they communicate with, their community is very much that way. and i remember there was a ed meant that i worked for that when i was a teenager, they that, you know, had a ledger for people that couldn't afford certain things that became a community. so yeah. oh, you come. yeah, you take care of it, get whatever you need and god bless no problem. like you just it was that way and, and still that way to this day, you know, we have

a lot of people on youtube asking questions and making comments. so many people reacting positively not just to the trailer but to the sho. motorized thing. have you experience writer's block and how do you move past it? i mean, i can imagine you've spent what a decade writing this. yeah, i wrote the flash back in episode 7 in december somewhere in sometime in 2014, i think was like early december 2014. so it's been a while. it's been a long time. but yeah, of course, the experience where i was black and it's not about for me the right is where i came from, you know, the emotionality like where, where the, what does this fit and where does that go? and there wasn't about like a shortage of content. because there was a lot of story that package to it, how you parse it out for it to be a well balanced season, one to where you feel connected. and we gave every character and, and piece of the drum or comedy time debris. that's the really hardest part of the whole thing. and if you're going through, it seems like whenever you do something so so big, you know,

you're going to be challenged personally with something deeply emotional. and that happened to me a lot and it was great challenges. i'm grateful for them, a better for them and just kind of work through it. you know that i have like in the, in see in the episode 3 were my friends and try to tell me i need therapy. i highly recommended. so we recommend you, you spill your guts, out to someone that can help you navigate this crazy with. but it's, it's, it's just incredible hearing you kind of talk about that process. because i rarely have seen a show that is, let's say, new or innovative in its structure. what it's about that has been so well received . i mean, what is it? 100 percent, i have it right here on rotten tomatoes, a 100 percent. the critics ratings, i mean, i've seen it covered everywhere. i don't know, i don't know what the i, i don't want to over stated law, but, you know, is this something you would have thought of when you were doing stand up that

transition from stand up to now this series, i mean, was that always when you were a kid in the back, your mind like this. this feels like a combination that could really be transformative for your career, but also for, for story telling and posting and you had. so it was constantly on my mind to stand up is my 1st love. i have to shows tonight like i'm, that's going to be there for me forever. a story telling in general that's why i fell in love with stand up. now translating that to film or television is a completely different animal, but they're all related and how you tell the story, how you visualize it. now you put that up cinematically and how you want to go to display that to the world. but yeah, it's always been there and it said something that's a deep passion of mine and i was never like as far as like the 100 percent run tomatoes in the audience score. be 90 percent out loud. it's it's i don't know what to say. i'm just so thrilled. i'm so happy and also like hard work does pay off.

right. and it's something that my friend told me that you know, chappelle is when he eats me about this cuz he was like, you work so hard on his. i saw you, but you haven't stopped. and he left it all on the field. you have to trust the work. and once he told me that it really put me at ease, i'm like, yeah, there's literally not one second in each episode that i, you know, took for granted. and so you have to trust to work at some point. i think people are most nervous usually have not done all that they could do that. i didn't feel that way and i'm just blessed who has received that doesn't mean like it was going to receive well, but yeah, i definitely felt calm like i did everything. i could, yeah, like, i don't know how much it was i could have done and i'm just blessed to have such a great team. if you know around me that, that help bring this to life. and more, you know, you've inspired so many people so many story. it's always i have people stopping me being like, can you tell them all is if i like have a speed dial to you,

but it's incredible. it's incredible to me that that's happened. and i wonder, has this at all shifted for you? what it means to be successful? you do not, you've had so much success and so many different ways. this feels like a new realm. what is it is estimated to is it that 100 percent certified fresh? uh, it's a great bonus. it's a great bonus to for that to happen. i'm not going to pretend like it's not in a while that we live it. but to me, the success is when my mom is getting what half messages of the shower and they don't know, she's my mother. you know, that is that when people are so me that's like a foreigner. success is like when your mom is getting in. and david works at massachusetts, i don't know that. i'm really sorry i'm, it's really a, it's really a beautiful thing when people are right when i got a video of people changing my name in the streets when donald was performing in and i forgot what city they were and i think, or i don't know what city was in the past, i was just,

i'm changing my name. it just like people i meet them and they're just like in think emotional about how they feel about the shell in their connection to me that is like to success. you know that to me is, is every time that i went to a fight, the ortiz ortiz, a m b and be released by an end user friendly invited me to the match. and i was the 1st time i went outside. it was kind of like having somebody else to take visit the dropping shows, showing anxious. it was my 1st public appearance and yeah, and may panels are walking up to me like one of the small one i was like, this is incredible. i. this is a different thing. yeah. if we struck a nerve that come where people feel seen where their stories are being told in the vehicle just happens to be a palestinian families and may not get deeply emotional. think about and it's crazy now. and i, i know i, that is what you know it's, it's a beautiful thing and it's, it's not lost on anybody i think who is,

is understanding of the social fabric of the us. and this moment, after the last few years that are getting political about it, it's, it's, i know you're all about emotions, you, you're all about the drugs. but if you look at the comedy and your series, it all comes down to feelings and emotions. that's what so beautiful. we have a comment from a re is mccarthy. it's a video comment? take a listen to what she said. a pillar son recently supported his study by us, the annenberg inclusion initiative, which showed that lessons are most likely to be seen on screen as victims are perpetrators of bad meaning that we're really under represented and comedy even though we're whole areas. the thing that i love about what most show does is not shy away from the incredibly important to address his stomach issues that muslims in aerospace every day in the united states. all still acknowledging that we as marginalize, people deserve for body to that, our laughter and our love. and our humanity is what allows us to survive and thrive

under really difficult situations, surviving and thriving. well, as someone who is driving a lot of people asking me, ask him about the season to, is it happening and what are you excited about quickly? well, i'm moving confidently like it will. i have not gotten confirmation yet, but waiting on the waiting on the news, but yeah, i'm already building it out of my mind and it's so much more story to tell them. excited. incredible and, and just quickly, before we wrap um black adam, how are you feeling about that? i mean, i forget that i'm in a super hear a movie with the right here and assume right here. sure. a movie with the rocks. amazing. yeah it's, it's incredible. what amazing spruce work with him and the entire cast is phenomenal. pierce brosnan, my hero. it what a, what a, what a crazy time. what a blessing my taking it for granted that it's a change of the whole thing. and by the way, if everybody's wondering yes, i'm visiting my mother. this is, this is classic, a mom of all as a painting in the bathroom. i love at all. i want to thank you for joining us on

this. so i want to thank you also for inspiring so, so many people with your authentic story telling and you know, keep, keep it up. and uh, thanks for joining us. for those of you at home, this is our show for today. join us next time the the, the latest news as it breaks on one side, the authorities are appealing for tom on the other side. now it's from like the

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