The Danish Cartoon Crisis of 2005 and 2006: 10 Things You Didn’t Know About the Original Mohammad Controversy (This post was previously published at Wired.com.).. With thousands taking to the streets in protest after a YouTube video mocked Muhammad, many pundits are comparing the situation to the mother of all Muslim controversies: the so-called Muhammad [...]
A few more videos on Joel and Pete’s trip to Palestine and Israel in August 2011. See more on the Humor Code’s YouTube channel. Discussing our hit and run experience: Tel Aviv’s tent city: Censorship in the West Bank: Joel Warner navigates the Qalandia checkpoint from Ramallah to Jerusale (this made Pete [...]
We recently spent a day in the West Bank city of Hebron. Simply put, Hebron is a wacky place. To put it’s wackiness into perspective, I mentioned to Jacob Gough, the new director of the Freedom Theater (which is in the refugee camp of Jenin – the location of a high-profile murder of its founder, [...]
The World’s Best Taxi. Video from our Facebook page: Another (similar) video on our YouTube channel:
Featured on Salon The hit Palestinian TV satire show “Watan ala Watar” began its Aug. 14 episode with a sketch featuring Palestinian Attorney General Ahmad Mughani getting besieged by Palestinians filing lawsuits over “Watan ala Watar” making fun of them. One woman says in Arabic that the TV show hadn’t parodied her yet, but she’s sure it’s [...]
