Description
If you like comedy that’s edgy, racy and challenges the status quo, then Lebanese comedian, activist and all round rebel, Shaden Fakih, should be right up your street.
As the Middle East’s first openly queer comedian, Fakih defies social taboos and addresses supposedly no-go topics such as female sexuality, homosexuality, racism, religion, and mental health in her shows.
Bold and outspoken, she uses her role as an influential online activist to criticise the ruling political forces and failing sectarianism in her homeland – and her popularity is growing. More than 10,000 people have seen her critically-acclaimed show, SHIAA SEEDS, since 2018, and now Fakih brings her All Hell Broke Loose show to Bradford and with it her defiant, non-conformist spirit.
This show will be in Arabic only with no translation.
Shubbak Festival and Bradford Literature Festival present Shaden Fakih. Shubbak is the UK’s leading biennial festival of contemporary Arab culture. www.shubbak.co.uk
Please note the location of this event has changed due to flooding.
About the Performer
Shaden Fakih
Shaden is a Lebanese comedian, actress and rebel. As the Middle East’s first openly queer comedian, Shaden addresses what are still considered as controversial issues for social change such as female sexuality, homosexuality, racism, religion and mental health in her shows. She has performed this special in Beirut, Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam and Oslo with awk.word comedy in over 90 sold-out shows in 2022. Shaden had already performed her first critically-acclaimed special SHIAA SEEDS to over 10,000 audience members since 2018.
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