Noam Shuster-Eliassi

Noam Shuster-Eliassi (born 1986 or 1987) is an Israeli comedian and activist who performs in Hebrew, Arabic, and English. She was born to an Iranian-born Jewish mother and a Jerusalem-born father, and from the age of seven was raised in Neve Shalom/Wahat as-Salam, a community where Jews and Palestinians live together by choice, where she learned Arabic quickly. After performing national service, she attended Brandeis University on a scholarship and graduated in 2011, later becoming a co-director of Interpeace, an organization founded by the United Nations. She turned to comedy as part of her activism and in 2019 attended Harvard Divinity School as a fellow to develop her one-woman show. She had a viral moment in Arab media in January 2022 with her satirical song 'Dubai, Dubai', and she is the subject of the documentaries Reckoning with Laughter (2021) and Coexistence, My Ass! (2025), the latter winning awards at TDF and Sundance. In 2018, she was named 'Best New Jewish Comedian of the Year' in a competition sponsored by JW3 in London.