Challenge misconceptions about muslims. Amer is a palestinian, born and raised in kuwait. His family fled the country in the leadup to the persian gulf war. We lost everything overnight, banks were shut down everything gone. And thats when we discovered that my mom has been saving money for many years. You know, thats when i found out my mothers a gangster. The family then settled in houston, texas where he picked up another language. Which is really great because im brown and i speak spanish, so if anything breaks out i can camouflage at any moment in time. I mean every arab needs an exit strategy nowadays. Hes toured the world, traveling for a long time without a u. S. Passport. Amer performed for u. S. Troops, pre and post 9 11, but it took him 20 years to become an american citizen. 20 years is a mighty long time his biography is the basis for many of his jokes. Can i have your passport please . Of course i give him my travel document. Hes like, thats good, yeah. He opens it up, he
About muslims. Amer is a palestinian, born and raised in kuwait. His family fled the country in the leadup to the persian gulf war. We lost everything overnight, banks were shut down everything gone. And thats when we discovered that my mom has been saving money for many years. You know, thats when i found out my mothers a gangster. The family then settled in houston, texas where he picked up another language. Which is really great because im brown and i speak spanish, so if anything breaks out i can camouflage at any moment in time. I mean every arab needs an exit strategy nowadays. Hes toured the world, traveling for a long time without a u. S. Passport. Amer performed for u. S. Troops, pre and post 9 11, but it took him 20 years to become an american citizen. 20 years is a mighty long time his biography is the basis for many of his jokes. Can i have your passport please . Of course i give him my travel document. Hes like, thats good, yeah. He opens it up, hes like oh no, says here i
Raised in kuwait. His family fled the country in the leadup to the persian gulf war. We lost everything overnight, banks were shut down everything gone. And thats when we discovered that my mom has been saving money for many years. You know, thats when i found out my mothers a gangster. The family then settled in houston, texas where he picked up another language. Which is really great because im brown and i speak spanish, so if anything breaks out i can camouflage at any moment in time. I mean every arab needs an exit strategy nowadays. Hes toured the world, traveling for a long time without a u. S. Passport. Amer performed for u. S. Troops, pre and post 9 11, but it took him 20 years to become an american citizen. 20 years is a mighty long time his biography is the basis for many of his jokes. Can i have your passport please . Of course i give him my travel document. Hes like, thats good, yeah. He opens it up, hes like oh no, says here its not a passport. I spoke to mo amer at the Go
Raised in kuwait. His family fled the country in the leadup to the persian gulf war. We lost everything overnight, banks were shut down everything gone. And thats when we discovered that my mom has been saving money for many years. You know, thats when i found out my mothers a gangster. The family then settled in houston, texas where he picked up another language. Which is really great because im brown and i speak spanish, so if anything breaks out i can camouflage at any moment in time. I mean every arab needs an exit strategy nowadays. Hes toured the world, traveling for a long time without a u. S. Passport. Amer performed for u. S. Troops, pre and post 9 11, but it took him 20 years to become an american citizen. 20 years is a mighty long time his biography is the basis for many of his jokes. Can i have your passport please . Of course i give him my travel document. Hes like, thats good, yeah. He opens it up, hes like oh no, says here its not a passport. I spoke to mo amer at the Go
Presentation. We are building tonight building tonight so if you do ask a question you will be filmed and please wait until microphone comes to you. And to maintain the book collections and we have kicked off our eighth annual appeal so if you already sent i take you from the bottom of my heart. Dr. White comes to us from austria where he is a professor of history at the university of sydney. He lives on either side of the world but steadies the history of new york city the your city and africanAmerican History. He is author of five books. The most recent book is there irreparable story of Jeremiah Hilton it was wrote his story is gripping why he draws out the excellent backs to supplement with details from wall street and others in that era. We are proud to share that Jeremiah Hilton was a shareholder of the library. Please join me to welcome shane white to the podium. [applause] thank you very much. As far as i unconcerned i talked perfect in you talk strange but that is day zero opi