Bassem Youssef; Jon Stewart; Mohamed Morsi; Hosni Mubarak; Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi

Bassem Youssef interviewing people on the streets of Cairo in the early days of his transition from a heart surgeon to a political satirist, November 2011.

‘Egypt’s Jon Stewart’ is trying to rebuild his comedy career in the US. It’s hard.

March 21, 2017Global Politics

The Egyptian heart surgeon-turned-satirist laughed his way through the Arab Spring … right into exile. Now he’s in the United States relaunching his career and laughing about that, too.

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