Mo Amer is the latest headliner announced for 2025's Dubai Comedy Festival. The Palestinian-American comedian and star of the ...

Mo Amer. Eamonn M. McCormack/Getty Images for The Red Sea International Film Festival. Writer and stand-up comedian Mo Amer was the latest Hollywood name to pass through Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea ...

Season 1 of “Mo,” which premiered on Netflix in August 2022, told a fictionalized version of Amer’s experience as a formerly undocumented refugee seeking asylum status in the U.S. Amer had ...

Comedian Mo Amer spoke to Times TV critic Lorraine Ali about the Israel-Gaza war, its effect on him, and the writing of his Netflix show’s second season. Nov. 9, 2023.

MO AMER We had such a great flow in the writing room up until the strike. We had something special already brewing. When we came back on Oct. 1, and all the events that ensued after, ...

Mo Amer and Eric Trump in a chance encounter on a flight to Glasgow in 2016 (Mo Amer Instagram)“I landed in Glasgow with the most insane amount of messages,” Amer says now.

Mo season 2 follows Mo Najjar (Mo Amer) as he tries to survive in Mexico. His asylum hearing is looming and he cannot return to the US without a passport. Nearly every aspect of his life is in ...

Mo is best described as a semi-autobiographical series based on Amer’s life.. Much like the Najjar family, Amer’s family fled from Kuwait in 1990 to Houston, Texas, to escape the Iraqi ...

Comedian Mo Amer came to the U.S. as a refugee at the age of 9. He tells NPR's Michel Martin about his new Netflix comedy special, which brings humor to his experience of growing up.

The show's star and co-creator is the standup Mo Amer. The story dives into immigration, identity, and a family as they work to map out a secure future.

Mo’s inability to travel with his family to Palestine is a central tension of Season 2, and while that’s due to the character’s immigration status, for safety reasons, even American citizens ...