Ramy Youssef‘s comedy-drama series Ramy, for which he won an acting Golden Globe, is back with Season Two, premiering May 29th on Hulu. In the first teaser for the new batch of episodes, Youssef portrays first-generation Egyptian-American Ramy Hassan as he embarks on a spiritual journey in his politically divided …
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The afternoon before Ramadan starts, Ramy Youssef is sitting in a restaurant in downtown Manhattan, dressed in sweats and a black Nike snapback hat. He’s loading up on food: a hearty stack of lemon curd pancakes, a side of turkey sausage, ketchup he liberally seasons with pepper. The 28-year-old has …
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Meet Ramy Hassan. He’s 27 years old and lives in Rutherford, New Jersey, with his parents and his younger sister; he was going to get a place of his own, but then the start-up he worked at went belly-up. Now he schleps for his uncle in New York’s diamond district …
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