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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 effec...

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16.03 22 Jan 2026


Sami Abu Wardeh on making comedy out of Irish Palestinian displacement


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16.03 22 Jan 2026


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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