Laughter and the 11 September Disaster

Abstract

Stand-up comedy and Muslim woman. The two subjects don't really go do they? They are not often mentioned together. Not till I became a stand-up comedian and the media rapidly descended upon me, labelling me as 'the first Muslim woman in the history of stand-up comedy'. I am a stand-up comedian who writes all my own material, most of it from personal experience, and most of it based on truth, because after all the truth is funny, we don't need to make it up.