Ramy Youssef on How His Sitcom Uses Music to Tell a Millennial Muslim Story

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Upon its premiere last spring, Ramy Youssef’s Hulu dramedy was showered with praise for bringing Islam and Arab culture—rarely seen with any nuance on American TV—to the masses in a heartfelt way.

It brought Youssef an HBO standup special and a Golden Globe at 28. Two-time Oscar winner Mahershala Ali was such a big Ramy fan that he asked to be written into the new season—which he was, as a sheikh.

An underappreciated aspect of the show is its meticulously curated music. The soundtrack plays a big role in conveying the inner worlds of Ramy’s character, who navigates between religious tradition and millennial modernity, morality and sin, American life and his Egyptian culture.

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