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 Comedy Central's "Axis of Evil" Comedy special and is the co-creator 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.

Dean has appeared on numerous international and national television and radio programs including ABC's "The View," MSNBC, "The Joy Behar Show," The PBS special "Stand up: Muslim Comics Come of Age," CNN's "American Morning" and "The Situation Room," MSNBC, PBS' "Newshour with Jim Lehrer," HD's "Dan Rather Reports," NPR, Fox News Radio, ABC's "20/20," Al Jazeera's "Min Washington," MBC's "Good Morning Ya Arab," "Democracy Now with Amy Goodman," and CNN International's "Inside the Middle East." In addition, he has been featured in various publications including Time magazine, Newsweek, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times and he writes frequently for The Huffington Post.

Dean is proud to have received the first annual "Bill Hicks Spirit Award" for "thought provoking comedy" (named after the late comedian Bill Hicks) from the NY Underground Comedy Festival and the Hicks' Family.

In addition to being co-executive producer of the NY Arab-American Comedy festival, Dean also serves as the Executive Director of The Amman Stand up Comedy Festival - the first stand up comedy festival ever held in the Middle East which took place in December 2008. The third annual Amman Festival will be held December 4-10, 2010. (www.ascf.jo/)

He also co-created the comedy show "Stand up for Peace" along with Jewish comic Scott Blakeman which they perform at colleges across the country in support of peace in the Middle East and fostering understanding between Arab and Jewish-Americans. (www.standupforpeace.com) He is also the co-creator of the current national comedy tour "Arabs Gone Wild" with Maysoon Zayid and Aron Kader.

In addition to performing comedy throughout the US, Dean has performed in the Middle East in Alexandria, Amman, Beirut, Cairo, Haifa, Doha, Dubai, Muscat, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Sharm El-Sheikh and Ramallah.

For more information about Dean, please visit: www.deanofcomedy.com.