Top 100 Arabs 2024

98. Mo Amer

Comedian, Writer and Producer

Origin: Palestine

Residence: US

Sector: Culture and Society

2023 Rank: New

Mohammed “Mo” Mustafa Amer is a Palestinian-American stand-up comedian and award-winning writer. He stars in the Netflix series Mo, a semi-autobiographical series.

He won the 2022 Gotham Award, AFI Award, a 2023 Peabody Award and a 2023 Television Academy Honour. He was also nominated for a 2023 Film Independent Award for “Lead Actor in a Special Series”.

Amer has performed in over 27 countries on fi ve continents, including Germany, Italy, Sicily, Japan, Korea, and Bahrain.

Recently Mo has had two Netflix comedy specials: Mo Amer: The Vagabond and Mo Amer: Mohammed in Texas. In 2018, Amer joined the cast of the Hulu show Ramy, starring Ramy Youssef, where he plays Ramy’s cousin, Mo.

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