Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez and other A-list celebs were seen attending a Gaza fundraising event hosted by the Brooklyn-based comedy club owned by US Egyptian Ramy Youssef.
Youssef’s comedy club actively supports organizations assisting Palestine and is committed to donating 100% of the event’s proceeds to the non-governmental organization American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA) for Gaza relief efforts.
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A-list celebrities attend Ramy Youssef’s Gaza fundraiser comedy show
On Friday the 8th of December in Brooklyn, New York, Taylor Swift was spotted with friends, including Selena Gomez, Cara Delevingne, Anya Taylor-Joy, and Zoë Kravitz, attending a sold-out comedy show from Ramy Youssef’s More Feelings tour at The Brooklyn Academy of Music.
The show will see 100% of proceeds going to support the humanitarian crisis in the Middle East through the American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA). ANERA, as outlined on its website, is a non-governmental organization providing assistance to the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Lebanon, and Jordan.
Selena Gomez recently took to social media to express her concern for the ongoing global crisis:
“I’ve been taking a break from social media because my heart breaks to see all of the horror, hate, violence, and terror that’s going on in the world. People being tortured and killed or any act of hate towards any one group is horrific. We need to protect ALL people, especially children and stop the violence for good.”
Who is Ramy Youssef?
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Ramy Youssef is an Egyptian-American creator, actor, producer, director, and comedian. He is the mind behind the award-winning Hulu series “Ramy”, a show influenced by Youssef’s own life, which revolves around a first-generation Egyptian-American Muslim on a spiritual journey in a politically divided New Jersey community. His outstanding work earned him a Golden Globe in 2020. Youssef is also a co-creator and executive producer of the Netflix series “Mo” inspired by Mo Amer’s life as a Palestinian refugee in Houston, as well as a director of some episodes of the hit show, “The Bear”.
On the big screen, Youssef stars alongside Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, and Mark Ruffalo in Yorgos Lanthimos’ highly anticipated new film, “Poor Things”.