Mo Amer and Ramy Youssef on How ‘Mo’ Grapples With Palestine and Israel in Season 2 — Without Mentioning Oct. 7
variety.comMo Amer. He’s spending the day at Hermann Park in Houston, the city where he’s lived since he was 9 years old. It’s late March and the air is still cool.
Young parents guide their toddlers over twisted tree roots. Ducks quack in the distance. Amer, 43, is surrounded by a small but focused TV crew who are here to help him pull off his dream: showrunning and starring in the first Palestinian-led series in American history.
But lately, world events have made it harder than ever to publicly celebrate his heritage. Season 1 of “Mo,” which premiered on Netflix in August 2022, told a fictionalized version of Amer’s experience as a formerly undocumented refugee seeking asylum status in the U.S.
Amer had toured as a stand-up comic for years, but the series cemented his place in the entertainment industry: After DJ Khaled and the supermodel sisters Gigi and Bella Hadid, he’s the most famous Palestinian in town.
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