When she started performing stand-up comedy in 2006, Montreal-based Palestinian-Muslim comedian Eman El-Husseini avoided talking about being Arab. El-Husseini — who was born in Kuwait and moved to Montreal at age 10 during the Gulf War — began to embrace her background onstage after she accidentally started speaking about her family to a tough Montreal open mic crowd. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.