The many difficulties she faces as a woman with a disability in the Palestinian territories of the West Bank are not funny at first glance. But in her first solo performance, blind Palestinian comedian Sherihan El Hadwa “defeats easy stories of victimization” et “gains fans all over Palestine”, writes the Sunday newspaper The Observer, who devotes a portrait to him.
In his show No Cherie, El Hadwa tells incongruities of all kinds. For example, how she ends up flirting with strangers who help her navigate pothole-strewn roads, or the annual evaluation done by doctors to prove… that she still can’t see them.
His humor is “sardonic” et “has bite” because it expresses “just anger”, writes the correspondent of the British newspaper in Jerusalem. The 35-year-old actress explains:
“Is