The Emmy-nomated show explor a gay Middle Eastern man who is bigoted, vlent, and pletely human.
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QUEERG UNCLE NASEEM: RAMY'S RADILLY PROBLEMATIC GAY CHARACTER
There are eply awkward enunters between them but also moments of homosocial the show progrs, Ramy ultimately emerg as more of an antagonist than a protagonist, and there is a form of narcissism at play that is remiscent of Woody Allen's work.
And while there are idsyncrasi that are unique to the muni, much of what is reprented on Ramy is qutsentially Amerin more generally, and other s, much more was paful to watch the scene of Ramy's father, Faro (Amer Waked), nont Ramy for havg an affair wh his father's iend's wife, but then rolve that tense nontatn wh an exprsn of relief: "Well, at least you are not gay! " This remd me of the breathtakg film My Brother The Devil about an Egyptian-Brish fay where a brother uld not envisn anythg worse than his brother beg gay.
In many Middle Eastern muni, homosexualy is unrstood as absolutely one of the most egreg of ss and/or cultural taboos.