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In 2012, Mandvi starred in Disgraced at Lincoln Center's Claire Tow Theater. He played the lead role of Amir, a Pakistani- American lawyer struggling with his identity and Islam in the drama by Ayad Akhtar. The play won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Mandvi was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award for his performance. Television
Oct 31, 2014 · Like many Muslim Americans today, comedian Aasif Mandvi — of "Daily Show" fame — finds himself having to spend more time explaining the misconceptions of Islam to others rather than focusing on how his faith can improve himself. Mandvi expressed some of these frustrations in a revealing HuffPost Live interview Friday.
Apr 2, 2015 · Although he's best known as the "Senior Muslim Correspondent" on The Daily Show, Aasif Mandvi self-describes as an "Indo-Muslim-British-American actor who has spent more time in bars...
Sep 9, 2016 · 9/11: Seventeen Years Later. How We Talk About Muslims. Aasif Mandvi on why we must escape the "good guy, bad guy" mentality. As Told To Dave Holmes Published: Sep 9, 2016. In 2001, Aasif...
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Nov 3, 2014 · November 3, 20143:05 PM ET. Heard on Fresh Air. 38-Minute Listen. Playlist. No Land's Man. By Aasif Mandvi. Purchase. Aasif Mandvi is best known as The Daily Show 's senior Muslim...
Nov 4, 2014 · Aasif Mandvi is known to millions as the Muslim correspondent on “ The Daily Show ,” but before he was filing hilarious dispatches for the Comedy Central staple, he was trying to fit in as a...
Apr 10, 2015 · “Halal in the Family,” a broad sitcom parody on Funny or Die, features that rarest of things in popular entertainment, a sympathetic Muslim family at the center of its own show. Skip to ...
