Nour Hajjar

Nour Hajjar is a Lebanese stand-up comedian based in Beirut, recognized as one of the country's most prolific performers on the modern Lebanese stand-up circuit. He released full-length comedy specials, Meit Shabb in 2019 and Selloum w Hayye in 2020, followed by Godzilla in 2025, and contributed to the web series Stand-up Baladi, which highlighted emerging Lebanese comedic talent. Hajjar has headlined a show at the Dubai Comedy Festival and toured internationally, with dates across the Gulf, Europe, and North America. In 2022, he opened the Beirut Spring Festival with a stand-up performance at Al Madina Theatre. His material frequently addresses Lebanon's economic collapse and political dysfunction, commentary that has repeatedly drawn legal scrutiny. In August 2023, Hajjar was detained for roughly eleven hours by Lebanese military authorities over a joke about soldiers whose poor pay forced them to work as delivery drivers, a case condemned by Amnesty International and other human rights organizations. He separately faced a complaint from Dar al-Fatwa, Lebanon's Sunni religious authority, over an older joke, and was made to sign a pledge not to insult religion. Both proceedings against Hajjar and the comedy platform awk.word were resolved when Lebanon's Permanent Military Court acquitted Hajjar and awk.word's founder in December 2025, closing a case widely cited as an example of legal pressure on comedic free speech in Lebanon.