Aamer Rahman

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Aamer Rahman (born October 17, 1982 in Saudi Arabia ) is an Australian stand-up comedian and activist. Together with Nazeem Hussein , he forms the anti-racist comedian duo Fear of a Brown Planet .

Life

Rahman's parents are from Bangladesh , but moved to the Middle East after their marriage. Rahman was born in Saudi Arabia, where he spent the first years of his childhood. When he was six years old, the family moved to Australia. Four years later the family moved again, this time to Oman . At the age of thirteen Rahman was back in Australia, where he has lived ever since. Rahman grew up in Melbourne .

He studied law at Monash University , where he graduated.

Rahman was committed to the rights of refugees and against racism . In 2004 he met Nazeem Hussein at the presentation of a Muslim prize for his commitment. The two became friends and became active in youth work together . In 2007 the two first appeared together as a comedian duo. Rahman made it to the finals of the nationwide Raw Comedy competition. With their first joint stand-up comedy show Fear of a Brown Planet , they played in front of a sold-out audience in different parts of Australia from 2007, for the first time at the Melbourne Fringe Festival . At the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in 2008 the two were named best newcomers. In 2010, the follow-up show Fear of a Brown Planet Returns followed , which was also released on DVD the following year. Fear of a Brown Planet Attacks followed in 2011 . They also performed the latter at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe . A tour of the UK in 2012 was sold out.

Rahman performed solo for the first time in April 2013. He performed his show The Truth Hurts at the Melbourne Comedy Festival. Since then, there have been further solo appearances in Australia, the United States and Great Britain, as well as numerous appearances with Hussein. The Guardian called the performance of The Truth Hurts in London one of the ten best comedy shows in the UK in 2014. An excerpt from Fear of a Brown Planet , makes itself in the Rahman about "reverse racism" by whites to people of color funny, was 2013 YouTube going viral. Rahman writes and acts on Australian television. Among other things, he wrote scripts for the first season of the comedy series Balls of Steel Australia in 2012 .

Rahman claims to have received multiple death threats over the Internet due to the controversial political content of his comedy shows. Rahman remains committed to refugee rights. Since it was founded in 2009, he has been active in the organization RISE: Refugees, Survivors and Ex-Detainees , which is run by (former) refugees.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Aamer Rahman: The Truth Hurts. (No longer available online.) In: beat. Archived from the original on November 4, 2013 ; Retrieved April 10, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.beat.com.au
  2. ↑ Asme Fahmi: Fear of a Funny Muslim. In: Muslim Village. November 30, 2011, accessed April 10, 2017 .
  3. ^ Brian Logan: Brian Logan's top 10 comedy of 2014. In: The Guardian. Retrieved April 10, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Myriam Francois-Cerrah: Comic Aamer Rahman on 'Islamophobia as a flavor of racism'. In: Middle East Eye. Retrieved April 10, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Rahman, Aamer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian stand-up comedian and activist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th October 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Saudi Arabia