Tags: Comedian.
Maysoon Zayid (Arabic: ميسون زايد) is an American actress comedian and advocate who is of Palestinian descent. She was born in New Jersey in 1974. She described herself in a BBC interview as a Palestinian Muslim virgin with cerebral palsy from New Jersey who is an actress comedian and activist. Zayid has been a resident of Cliffside Park New Jersey. She is considered one of America’s first Muslim women comedians and the first person ever to perform standup in Palestine and Jordan.