"I have spastic paralysis. I shake all the time," Maysoon Zayid announces at the start of this exhilarating, funny talk. (Actually, it's humorous.) "I'm like Shakira satisfies Muhammad Ali." With grace and wit, the Arab-American comic takes us on a whistle-stop trip of her experiences as an actress, comic, benefactor and supporter for the disabled.
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