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A file picture taken on May 15, 2013, shows Egyptian satirist and television host Bassem Youssef gesturing during the annual Arab Media Forum in Dubai. (AFP PHOTO/KARIM SAHIB)
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A picture taken on January 22, 2013 shows Egyptians walking past posters of Egyptian satirist Bassem Youssef outside a theatre in Cairo. (AFP)
Bassem Youssef’s Al-Barnameg back in February
London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Egyptian satirist Bassem Youssef and his controversial Al-Barnameg TV program are set to return to Egyptian television screens in February 2014, according to his father Judge Ra’fat Youssef. The third series of Bassem Youssef’s hit weekly...Caption:
In this Saturday Dec. 8, 2012, file photo, Egyptian TV host Bassem Youssef addresses attendants at a gala dinner party in Cairo, Egypt. (AP)
Bassem Youssef controversy continues in court
London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Bassem Youssef is a name that has been generating a lot of controversy over the past few weeks. On this occasion, however, the controversy is not over the broadcast of his popular satirical program, Al-Barnameg, but rather CBC TV’s...Caption:
In this Sunday, March 31, 2013 file photo, a bodyguard secures popular Egyptian television satirist Bassem Youssef, who has come to be known as Egypt’s Jon Stewart, as he enters Egypt’s state prosecutors office to face accusations of insulting Islam and the country’s Islamist leader in Cairo, Egypt. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)
Bassem Youssef hits back in op-ed
London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Egyptian satirist Bassem Youssef has been largely absent from public life since November 2, when the second episode of the third season of his popular weekly television program Al-Barnameg (“The Program”) was cancelled at the last...Caption:
In this Wednesday, October 30, 2013 photo, a supporter of Egyptian defense minister Gen. Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi holds a poster with a photo of Bassem Youssef that reads in Arabic, “Not Egypt, you are degrading to the media,” during a protest in Cairo, Egypt. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)