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Arab Fest 2013: The fouseyTUBE Show Live!
Venue: Lyric Theatre, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Saturday, April 13, 2013
Time: 4:00 - 5:30 PM
Event Types: Miscellaneous, Speaking Engagements
Cost: Free
Description:
As part of Virginia Tech's Arab Fest 2013, Virginia Tech presents the live comedy of The fouseyTUBE Show at The Lyric on Saturday, April 13th. This is the kick-off of the My Name Is Yousef Tour.

Yousef Erakat aka fouseyTUBE is a young Palestinian YouTuber who uses his videos to beat down universal stereotypes present today whether it be through comedy, spoken word poetry, or videos with a more serious tone.

fousey spends his time dressing up like his parents, belly dancing in Apple Stores and live broadcasting with his TUBIANS. He has been blessed with an amazing core of lovely people that support his dream, which he met along his journey, whom he calls his second family.

Yousef hit popularity and maintains to grow his family as his YouTube channel fouseyTUBE hit 320,000 subscribers, with some of his videos hitting a staggering 12,000,000 views with a total of 65,000,000. Yousef has a large fan base of Facebook with just over, 250,000 fans and has over 113,000 followers on Twitter.

While humor is his trademark, fouseys stories and skits reflect the dynamic formation of a transnational identity common to Palestinians and to other diasporic communities.

For more information on the fouseyTUBE Show, visit: http://fouseytube.net/

The event is free and open to the public.
Doors open at 3:30 pm.

For more information, visit: http://www.thelyric.com/events/?ID=1258