However, when a comedian decides to tackle the issue of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the punch line is never tactful. Coexistence, My Ass! The Sundance award-winning documentary by director Amber ...

Amber Fares' doc follows Israeli comedian Noam Shuster Eliassi as she grapples with the escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. By Leslie Felperin Contributing Film Critic Part of the buzz of ...

“I promise, I’m only staying for seven minutes, not 70 years,” Israeli comedian Noam Shuster Eliassi said at the 2019 Palestine Comedy Festival in East Jerusalem. The Palestinian crowd exploded in ...

Noam Shuster Eliassi spreads the message that Palestinians and Israelis should live as equals. By Ben Kenigsberg When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we earn ...

AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. I’m Amy Goodman, with Juan González. We end today’s show with a new documentary, opening tonight in New York at the IFC, about the Israeli ...

EXCLUSIVE: Comedian-activist Noam Shuster Eliassi has been pursuing a quixotic task: to find humor and humanity in the context of what is often reduced to a four-word shorthand, “the Israeli ...

Amber Fares’ “Coexistence, My Ass!,” which centers on Israeli comedian Noam Shuster-Eliassi, won the Golden Alexander in the International Competition section of the 27th Thessaloniki Intl.

Sundance: Amber Fares' doc provides a compelling front row seat to a country on the brink of implosion, with Eliassi's humor and insights acting as a melancholic elegy for a peace that might not ever ...

There are plenty of funny lines in Coexistence, My Ass! but make no mistake, this is not a comedy. As director Amber Fares follows Israeli comedian and peace activist Noam Shuster Eliassi from her ...

Comedy wasn’t always Noam Shuster Eliassi’s purpose in life. But as true callings sometimes do, stand-up found this immensely charismatic and funny intellectual eventually. After all, the magnetic ...