Humor Can Cut Through People’s Anger – OpEd

One of the first things I did after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, was to launch a comedy act, in which I used humor to reintroduce Arabs and Muslims to the American people.

In the wake of 9/11, Americans would come up to me and ask angrily why my people were murdering Americans. In just a few weeks, the amount of...