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Author: Tobias Matern

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Afghan comedian Asif Jalali (photo: Shabkhand Show)

Afghan Comedian Asif Jalali

Wit at a Time of War

According to Afghan comedian and TV star Asif Jalali, it is much easier to make people in Afghanistan cry than it is to make them laugh. In his TV show he sets out to do the latter, with great success. By Tobias MaternMore

Stand-up Comedy in Dubai: Clean Humour for the Arab WorldInterview with Omid Djalili: Jokes about the Jewish Muslim Love-Hate RelationshipHumour in the West Bank: "I Laugh, Therefore I Am"The Iranian Filmmaker Kamal Tabrizi: Should One Be Allowed to Laugh at Mullahs?Humour in the Islamic World: Digging at the DespotsKaya Yanar: "What you lookin' at?"
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  1. Ali Anouzla on the presidential elections

    Algeria stands at a historic crossroads

  2. Interview with Lebanese activist Nizar Hassan

    Beirut's ruling elite may be down, but they are not yet out

  3. Migration museum in Cologne

    Recognising Germany's immigration society

  4. Interview with the artist Parastou Forouhar

    Iranian society in shock

  5. Women in Turkey

    Ankara turns a blind eye to femicide

  6. Book review: Sherko Fatah's "Schwarzer September"

    Dirty war

  1. Interview with a mixed-faith couple

    Experiences in a Christian-Muslim marriage

  2. Sex tourism in Egypt

    A bride for the summer

  3. Women′s rights in Islam

    Can feminism be Islamic?

  4. Interview with Lebanese activist Nizar Hassan

    Beirut's ruling elite may be down, but they are not yet out

  5. Ali Anouzla on the presidential elections

    Algeria stands at a historic crossroads

  6. Child trafficking in Iran

    The agony of the destitute

  1. The German Islam Scholar Lamya Kaddor

    Why I as a Muslim Woman Don't Wear a Headscarf

  2. Jordan and the influx of refugees

    The true Samaritans

  3. Muslims in Liberal Democracies

    Why the West Fears Islam

  4. The decline of Islamic scientific thought

    Don't blame it on al-Ghazali

  5. The Media and ''The Innocence of Muslims''

    Against the Islamisation of Muslims

  6. Turning away from Shia in Iran

    ''A Tsunami of Atheism''

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In the heart of Beirut's manicured downtown, something is stirring in a bullet-pocked concrete shell of a building known as "the Egg": the visually unappealing Egg has advanced to become the meeting place for Lebanese democracy activists. Impressions by Lisa Barrington

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