Bassem Youssef is a brave, funny, famous comedian often called the Jon Stewart of Egypt. Famed across the Arab world. He was there in the thick of the Arab Spring, when uprising and hope swept the ...
The following script is from "Bassem Youssef" which aired on March 16, 2014. Bob Simon is the correspondent. Michael Gavshon and David Levine, producers. One of the most popular television shows in ...
Bassem Youssef is often compared to Jon Stewart as a political satirist. He talks to NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro about his new book, Revolution for Dummies: Laughing Through The Arab Spring. At its ...
Chris Cuomo and surgeon-turned-comedian Bassem Youssef discuss the fraught political landscape of the Middle East, dissect the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, and explore how fear is used as a tool for ...
Bassem Youssef is well known as the "Jon Stewart of Egypt" for his comedy show, "Al Bernameg," nicknamed "The Daily Show" of the Middle East. It was actually Jon Stewart himself who inspired Youssef ...
Bassem Youssef was a successful surgeon in Cairo when he was inspired — thanks to Jon Stewart and The Daily Show — to start his own satirical show on YouTube. Al-Bernameg was a hit, and Youssef ...