Ali Quandil

Ali Quandil, whose name also appears as Ali Kandil, belongs to the small group that put stand-up on its feet in Egypt and in the Arab world more widely. He set up one of the first stand-up training workshops in the Middle East, which made him a teacher of the form as much as a performer of it, and he has played shows across Egypt, the Gulf, Jordan and the United Kingdom. He was born in the Kafr el-Sheikh governorate and works as an actor as well.

Quandil was born in 1984. He began his career as a journalist for Al-Dostor. He began performing stand-up comedy in 2009.