Hisham Fageeh

Hisham Fageeh is an Arab comedian and actor from Saudi Arabia.

Hisham Fageeh was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He is the lead actor at the Saudi feature film Barakah Yoqabil Barakah. Fageeh began performing standup comedy as a student at Columbia University, from which he graduated in May 2013. Around that time he began attending UCB Theater in New York, studying long form improvisation. Within a year Fageeh was taking the stage with comedians Dean Obeidallah, Maysoon Zayid, Aasif Mandvi, Aron Kader, and Hari Kondabolu. He began performing in Arabic after his satirical blog YouTube series Isbooiyat Hisham went viral in December 2011 joining the ranks with Fahad Albutairi and Bader Saleh in the Saudi standup circuits. He is known as the first Saudi to perform in Gotham Theater and headline an Arabic standup comedy tour in the United States and England.

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