![]() ![]() “Mo,” which is at once heartbreaking and sharply funny, spotlights Amer’s identity as a Muslim, a Palestinian, a refugee and an asylum seeker and even a Houstonian. I mean, I know this feels like a juxtaposition and kind of, like, two worlds that should be colliding, but I feel very much at home with those two worlds.” ![]() “I definitely identify as a Texan Palestinian. (After finally being granted US citizenship in 2009, Amer and his family were able to travel to the West Bank and Jerusalem in 2016).Īmer told NPR last week that “I definitely identify as Palestinian American, but I - you know, it’s one of those things that as a refugee-asylee in America, someone that’s trying to fit in and feel like - have some kind of sense of belonging, you kind of become a chameleon,” he said. ![]() Mo’s Palestinian identity is front and center in the sitcom, as he constantly asserts his strong connection to the place he notes he has never been able to visit. ![]()
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