[ ] Fageeh co-produced and starred in Saudi Arabia's submission to the Oscars for 2016's Best Foreign Film, "Barakah Meets Barakah" | He was previously Head of Content at , a multi-channel network with 12 million subscribers and more than one billion views |
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[ ] Within a year Fageeh was taking the stage with comedians , , , , and | He began performing in Arabic after his satirical blog YouTube series "Isboo'iyat Hisham" Hisham's Weeklies went viral in December 2011, he joined the ranks of and Bader Saleh in the Saudi stand-up circuits |
His work has been written about by The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, BBC, Variety, among others.
1He started a web series Hisham's Weeklies before doing stand-up in Saudi Arabia | Fageeh is said to be as the first Saudi to perform in Gotham Theater and headline an Arabic stand-up comedy tour in the United States and England |
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Fageeh was a featured performer in the 2012 , both in the "New Faces" and "Haram night" shows |
Most-known for his 2013 viral video "No Woman, No Drive" which amassed more than 14 million views, Hisham started performing stand-up while working on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.
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