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Ramy Youssef Gets Teary Bringing Zohran Mamdani and Mahmoud Khalil Onstage
“Our joy is an act of resistance,” Khalil said.
Scattered throughout the auditorium were figures of note: Youssef’s Mountainhead co-star Cory Michael Smith ran across an aisle to greet a friend, while SubwayTakes’sKareem Rahma stood on the far end of the room holding court. Over the course of Youssef’s set, reminders of Mamdani’s victory and the memory that something unexpected — something possibly quite good — had happened in this city had the audience giggling and roaring in equal measure, like laughing gas was being pumped through the room. He got choked up in his introduction, moved to a point of stammering reverence, before welcoming out Mahmoud Khalil, the recently released Columbia University alum and new father who’d been detained by ICE in Louisiana from March 8 until June 20 for exercising his right to free speech about the ongoing atrocities in Gaza.
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