{"id":382816,"date":"2026-07-22T20:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T20:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/382816\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T20:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T20:02:11","slug":"mo-amer-mehdi-hasan-to-appear-at-uh-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/382816\/","title":{"rendered":"Mo Amer, Mehdi Hasan to appear at UH in October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Houstonian and Peabody award-winning comedian Mo Amer will be joining British-American journalist Mehdi Hasan in October for a conversation about politics, Palestine and comedy at University of Houston&#8217;s Cullen Performance Hall.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The event, part of\u00a0Hasan&#8217;s media company Zeteo&#8217;s flagship podcast, &#8220;We&#8217;re Not Kidding,&#8221;\u00a0features live conversations about politics, current events and culture. The Houston stop, set to take place on Oct. 16, will give audiences the opportunity to hear the pair discuss those topics and ask questions during the event.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Amer, whose full name is Mohammed Amer, is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/houston-texas\/trending\/article\/mo-amer-city-hall-22276436.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">comedian and the\u00a0creator of the Netflix hit show &#8220;Mo,&#8221;<\/a> which follows a fictionalized version of\u00a0him as he navigates life as a Palestinian refugee. The comedian and actor has three stand-up specials under his belt \u2014 &#8220;The Vagabond,&#8221; &#8220;Mohammed in Texas&#8221; and &#8220;Wild World&#8221; on Netflix.\u00a0The series won a Peabody Award in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Hasan\u00a0is an award-winning journalist, broadcaster and author who is also the founder and CEO of Zeteo.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for the event went on sale June 21.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houstonian and Peabody award-winning comedian Mo Amer will be joining British-American journalist Mehdi Hasan in October for a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-382816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}