Alaa Shehada

Building anything sustainable in Palestine is really hard.

I wanted to take on that challenge to make a stand-up comedy scene in Palestine.

Thank you.

Thank you for having me.

It's a realisation of our position as Palestinians.

And this position is really clear now outside to the world.

At the end of the day, you have no control over your future.

You have no control over your children's dreams and futures.

Unfortunately, I'm lucky Palestinian who's here in the UK who can perform and go all over the world.

Like millions of Palestinian guys who is dreaming, who are creative and smart people who cannot leave the homeland because of the situation.

It's painful.

for me here it's painful for my people back home everyone isn't there in an open air prison and the only thing that we can do is support and for myself is to tell the story to tell the story of my people i am i got the privilege to be a performer on stage and i'm trying to use this as much as i can to tell my story and the story of my people back home

Why comedy?

It's the most question.

Why comedy?

Why comedy?

Imagine, why don't we flip it upside down and say, why tragedy?

Why tragedy?

Why tears?

And why sad stories?