by Mahmud El Shafey | Feb 8, 2014 | Media
London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Following a three-month hiatus, Bassem Youssef and his satirical Al-Barnameg program returned to Egyptian screens on Friday evening, with the controversial TV host taking aim at the state of Sisi-mania that has gripped post-Mursi Egypt. The...
by Mahmud El Shafey | Dec 23, 2013 | Media
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...
by Mahmud El Shafey | Nov 20, 2013 | Media
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...
by Mahmud El Shafey | Nov 15, 2013 | Media
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...
by Najlaa Habriri | Nov 2, 2013 | Media
London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Minutes before the second episode of the third season of Al-Barnameg was scheduled to be aired, its host channel announced that it would not be broadcast. Khairy Ramadan, a news anchor at CBC, the private channel that airs popular Egyptian...
