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Interior design by Ruth Lee-Mui

Jacket design by Jonathan Bush

Jacket photograph by Paul Mobley Photography

Digital art by Mike Campau

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Jobrani, Maziyar, date.

I’m not a terrorist, but I’ve played one on tv : memoirs of a Middle Eastern funny man / Maz Jobrani.

pages cm

1. Jobrani, Maziyar. Comedians—United States—Biography. 3. Actors—United States—Biography. 4. Iranian Americans—Biography. 5. Stereotypes (Social psychology)—United States. I. Title.

PN2287.J573A3 2014

792.702'8092—dc23

[B]

2014015012

ISBN 978-1-4767-4998-3

ISBN 978-1-4767-5000-2 (ebook)