Maz Jobrani

Date
Mar 13, 2019, 7:30 pm8:30 pm
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Audience
Open to the public

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Maz Jobrani can currently be seen on his Netflix standup special, “Immigrant.” His solo specials on Showtime include “Brown and Friendly,” “I Come in Peace,” and “I’m Not a Terrorist, but I’ve Played One on TV.” In the spring of 2016, he performed at the White House and introduced Michelle Obama. He was a founding member of Comedy Central’s 2007 “Axis of Evil Comedy Tour.” He has costarred in many films including Sydney Pollack’s “The Interpreter” and Ice Cube’s “Friday After Next,” and is a regular guest on NPR’s “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me!” His L.A. Times best-selling book, I’m Not a Terrorist, but I’ve Played One on TV, was published by Simon & Schuster.

Sponsor
The Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian GUlf Studies; co-sponsored by the Department and Program in Near Eastern Studies and the Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia