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Born in the Great State of New Jersey, Dean's comedy comes in large part from his unique background of being the son of a Palestinian father and a Sicilian mother. Dean, an award winning comedian who was at one time a practicing attorney, has appeared on ABC's "The View," Comedy Central's "Axis of Evil" Comedy special and is the co-creator and co-producer of Comedy Central.com's critically acclaimed Internet series "The Watch List," featuring a cast of all Middle Eastern-American comedians performing stand up and sketch comedy. He is also one of five comedians profiled in the upcoming one-hour documentary airing nationally on PBS in 2008 entitled: "Stand Up: Muslim-American Comics Come of Age."  

Maysoon Zayid is an actress and professional standup comedian, who received her BFA in acting from Arizona State University. She is the co-founder and co-executive producer of the New York Arab American Comedy Festival and can be seen on Comedy Central's The Watch List and in the upcoming Adam Sandler movie, You Don't Mess With Zohan. She has appeared on As The World Turns, Law & Order, MTV, NBC Nightly News, CNN, ABC's 20/20, The New York Times, and WashingtonPost.com.  

Waleed F. Zuaiter most recently starred in Betrayed, the Lucille Lortel award winning new play at The Culture Project and just prior to that in The Public Theater Lab productions of Fever Chart by Naomi Wallace under the direction of Jo Bonney. He can currently be seen in the highly anticipated HBO/BBC miniseries about Saddam Hussein, "House of Saddam,"...