Mark your calendars for an evening of comedy with Azhar Usman

Title:	Comedy by Azhar Usman
When:	Friday, March 17th 2006, 6:30 pm
Where:	Sturm Hall University of Denver 2000 East Asbury Street Denver, CO 80208
Admission:	$12 / Person

Excerpt from http://www.azhar.com
"Azhar Usman is one of the world's few American Muslim standup comedians. Writing and performing comedy for nearly five years, he has developed a unique act based on transethnic and intercultural issues, keen and witty insights, and general observational humor. In 2004, he co-founded Allah Made Me Funny-The Official Muslim Comedy Tour with fellow Muslim comedian Preacher Moss, a 21-year veteran of the comedy industry and a former writer for George Lopez, Darrell Hammond, and Damon Wayans. Azhar and the Tour have been profiled, featured, and/or mentioned in over 100 major world media including, The New York Times, TIME, Newsweek, Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, BBC (UK), BBC Urdu (South Asia), CBC (Canada), ABC (Australia), MBC (Middle East), Al-Ahram Weekly (Egypt), Jawa Pos (Indonesia), DAWN (Pakistan) and dozens more. In March 2005, Azhar was the subject of an entire episode of ABC NIGHTLINE; he was interviewed on NPR's All Things Considered during the following summer; and in August he became a regularly featured on-air personality on Viacom's newly established MTV DESI. Azhar has performed at universities and prestigious theatre halls and auditoriums across the world, as well as North America's top comedy clubs, including The Improv (DC, Brea, and San Jose), The Comedy Zone (Charlotte and Knoxville), Yuk Yuk's (Toronto), and his hometown club, Zanies (Chicago)."

"...These days, Azhar serves as a co-founding Board Member of The Nawawi Foundation, an educational non-profit foundation created to foster research and development of an American Muslim intelligentsia to support American Muslim social and cultural creativity. He also serves on the Strategic Advisory Board of The Starlatch Press, a publisher and purveyor of translated classical and traditional Muslim texts, and is an authorized Spokesperson for the Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago, an umbrella body representing a consortium of Muslim organizations in and around Chicagoland."

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