![]() ![]() Though the incident bears great affliction, the quick-witted Mo slips his slick one-liners that act as comic relief in the show. Not long after, a trip to the grocery store puts him at the forefront of a traumatic event: a gunman shoots him in the arm. Mo is forced to find creative ways to make money, leaning on his side hustle of selling knock-off Yeezy sneakers and fake Rolex watches. Minutes in, Mo is fired from his job at an electronics store his manager, played by Egyptian comedian and author Bassem Youssef, who would rather be safe than sorry, fears a raid from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The show’s first episode, Hamoodi, drops us into Mo’s life in Texas as an affable hustler, juggling jobs that will look past his lack of an American citizenship. The story: on being at home but not at home A stand-up comedian like Youssef, Amer has starred in Netflix comedy specials Mo Amer: The Vagabond, Mohammed in Texas, and Allah Made Me Funny alongside Azhar Usma and Bryant ‘Preacher’ Moss. #MO AMER THE VAGABOND WATCH DOWNLOAD FREE SERIES#The series is co-created by Amer and Egyptian-American Ramy Youssef, known from his show Ramy, a dramedy about a first-generation Egyptian-American Muslim living in New Jersey. Much of the show is loosely drawn from Amer’s personal experiences growing up in Houston. Over the eight half-hour episodes, the series, billed as a semi-autobiographical dramedy, seeps into the trials and tribulations in Mo’s life – bridging humor and tragedy together. The war sent the Najjar family to Alief, a suburb in Houston, Texas to live, undocumented, as they wait for their aslyum request to be heard – for 22 years and counting. In one way or another, Netflix’s new series, Mo, painstakingly mirrors the stories of millions of asylum seekers struggling to make a home in the diaspora.ĭirected by Solvan “Slick” Naim, the Netflix show, which premiered on 24 August, follows Mo Najjar, played by Mohamed Amer, a Palestinian-American Muslim born in Kuwait, whose family fled to the U.S during the plight of the first Gulf War in the early 1990s. But as a floating immigrant, his family’s journey is painfully impeded by state bureacracy. In the land of hopes and dreams – the United States – Mo, an asylum seeker, has only one desire: to be granted the U.S citizenship and care for his family. ![]() I don’t have citizenship there I don’t have citizenship here. ![]() Mohamed Amer ‘Mo’ | Photo Credit: Netflix Netflix’s ‘Mo’: On Palestinian Representation and Blurring the Line between Fiction and Reality ![]()
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