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...As a heart surgeon, Bassem Youssef cut his patients open to find the disease within....
...Chill out, dude, it’s a joke, quips Bassem Youssef when, barely a minute into his show the first jeer comes....
...The highest profile casualty of the closure of the airwaves to critics is Bassem Youssef, the satirical presenter who modelled his programme on US comedian John Stewart’s The Daily Show....
...It was the gentle mocking of Mr Sisi that ended the television career of popular satirist Bassem Youssef. Big terrorist attacks are often accompanied by calls for a reformation in Islam....
...The television show of Bassem Youssef, the Egyptian political satirist who aimed his barbs at the army leadership last week, was cancelled on Friday, less than half an hour before airtime....
...That is why Bassem Youssef, the country’s best-known comedian, has just been taken off the air until after the end of the May presidential vote....
...Fortunately, this bubble has now been pricked by the very brave Egyptian satirist Bassem Youssef, featured by Heba Saleh in “Egyptian satirist hopes to have last laugh after poking fun at Sisi” (October...
...Egyptian political satirist, Bassem Youssef, returned to the airwaves on Friday night after a four-month hiatus, with a taboo-shattering show that is likely to go down in the annals of Arab television as...
...Earlier in the week, Egypt’s state prosecutor ordered an investigation into whether a popular political satirist, Bassem Youssef, has harmed the national interest by ridiculing General al-Sisi in a television...
...Comedian Bassem Youssef, has become a major national figure with his weekly mock news programme, “El Bernameg” or the programme, that makes light of Egypt’s political elite, especially Mohamed Morsi, the...
...They would invite stand-up comedians like Bassem Youssef, the Jon Stewart of Egypt whose prosecution has been causing a political storm, to make as much fun of them as they want....
...Egyptians need only look at the case of the political satirist Bassem Youssef, Cairo’s so-called Jon Stewart, whose television show was abruptly cancelled last week after a single episode in which he lampooned...
...Bassem Youssef, who hosts a popular television programme that mocks the country’s Islamist president and other authority figures, tweeted from the courtroom that prosecutors were “asking to take pictures...
...In a recent poll, the only public figure who could command a majority in Egypt was Bassem Youssef, the satirist. Mr Morsi’s speech made vague gestures towards the opposition....
...Egyptian comedian Bassem Youssef was grilled in court for hours on Sunday to answer charges of insulting Mr Morsi and defaming Islam before being released on $2,200 bail....
...At a time when satirist Bassem Youssef became one of the Arab world’s biggest celebrities, Mr Morsi and his allies became caricatures of the same stuffy, stuck-up leaders of the past who were shut off from...
...“The presidency has not filed any complaint against stand-up comedian Bassem Youssef. The presidency reiterates the importance of freedom of expression and fully respects press freedom.”...
...The programme is the brainchild of its host Bassem Youssef, a US-educated heart surgeon who turned political satirist after Egypt’s revolution in 2011....
...Egyptian comedian Bassem Youssef’s popular satirical television show El Bernameg, last week featured an elaborate song lamenting Qatar’s influence over the country to the tune of an old Arab nationalist...
...Bassem Youssef’s case will increase worries about freedom of speech in the post-Hosni Mubarak era, especially when the country’s new constitution includes provisions criticised by rights activists for, among...
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