Sami Abu Wardeh on making comedy out of Irish Palestinian displacement
As the son of an Irish mother and a Palestinian father, Sami Abu Wardeh has experienced the effects of colonialism, war and displacement many times in his life and how it has shaped his family’s past.
Turning away from a career in medicine in favour of comedy, he is now exploring what resistance really means in the face of adversity, in his show ‘Palestine: Peace de Resistance’ which will be shown at the Project Arts Theatre in Dublin on the 26th and 27th of January...
He joins Seán to discuss.
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