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World Service,01 Aug 2009,28 mins

Sayed Kashua, Israeli Arab Writer

The Interview Archive

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Arab Labor is a popular and controversial prime-time Israeli television comedy show. This week on The Interview we talk to its creator, Sayed Kashua. Sayed discusses issues of language, identity and politics. He tells Owen Bennett-Jones what it is like to being an Israeli Arab and why his own Arab community is finding it hard to laugh at his jokes.

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