NUST: National University of Sciences & Technology - Pakistan. Egypt's Morsi receives honorary Phd at NUST University. البرنامج - الليله مع مرسي - الحلقه 18 - جزء 1 The Daily Show: Egypt, Mohamd Morsi, Bassem Youssef. Top-satirist-bassem-youssef-arrested-overinsults-to-president-morsi-8555709. But tonight, the Egyptian authorities were facing accusations of conducting a political witch-hunt after Bassem Youssef – whose weekly programme regularly lampoons the President, Mohamed Morsi, and his Islamist allies – was arrested over allegations that he insulted Mr Morsi and the Islamic faith.
Youssef answered his summons to the general prosecutor’s office in Cairo today in typically irreverent fashion. Mobbed by cameramen and a few dozen supporters, he arrived wearing an absurdly oversized graduation hat – the kind donned by President Morsi when he was awarded an honorary degree in Pakistan last month. “Police officers and lawyers at the prosecutor-general’s office want to be photographed with me,” he said via his Twitter account after entering the building. “Maybe this is why they ordered my arrest?” After being interrogated, Youssef was released on a bail of E£15,000 (£1,450). Morsi. April 01, 2013 - Mary Roach - The Daily Show With Jon Stewart - Full Episode Video. BBC: Egypt satirist Bassem Youssef faces arrest warrant.
30 March 2013Last updated at 12:53 ET Bassem Youssef became popular after posting satirical videos on the internet An arrest warrant has been issued for a popular Egyptian political satirist for allegedly insulting Islam and President Mohammed Morsi.
Bassem Youssef has faced several complaints over his show El Bernameg (The Programme). He has poked fun at a wide range of figures, from fellow television presenters to well-known Muslim scholars and recently Mr Morsi himself. The case has highlighted worries about press freedoms in Egypt. It is also seen as the latest in a string of prosecution actions against opponents of the president and his party, the Muslim Brotherhood.
Earlier this week, Egypt's top prosecutor ordered the arrest of five political activists, among them a leading blogger, on suspicion of inciting aggression against the Brotherhood. The prosecutor, Talat Ibrahim, was appointed late last year by the president, after he had sacked his predecessor, Abdel Maguid Mahmoud. Egypt launches ambitious campaign to 'end humour' by 2018. The Egyptian government today announced ambitious plans to 'end humour' by 2018.
Modelled after the hugely successful 'End Poverty' global campaign, the initiative will aim to eliminate humour, satire and joke-telling from Egyptian society within a tightly-controlled five-year plan. Smiling will also be frowned upon, even though it won't be strictly prohibited. The campaign was launched earlier today by ordering the arrest of popular TV satirist Bassem Youssef, widely seen as a symbol of the nation's obsession with flippancy and light-heartedness. A stern-looking government spokesman announced that this is a symbolic strike at the entire echelon of satire and joke-telling that has infiltrated Egyptian society, hinting that foreign hands have been behind the drive to paralyse the nation through the promotion of humour in a strict religious nation. "I do not personally see the point of telling jokes. Controversy Over Egyptian Comedian Facing Gov't Prosecution Morphs into a Twitter War. When the Egyptian prosecutor's office summoned a famous comedian and political satirist for questioning, accusing him of insulting the president and Islam, a war of words ensued on Twitter.
On one side was the U.S. State Department, in the form of the U.S. embassy in Cairo, squaring off against the Egyptian president's office and Ikhwanweb, the Muslim Brotherhood's official media wing, which has an active Twitter account. On the sidelines ordinary 'netizens queued up to cheer and jeer. The 39 year-old heart surgeon turned comedian is famous for his irreverent skewering of President Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Youssef rose to fame in March 2011, shortly after the Egyptian uprising toppled authoritarian president Hosni Mubarak, when he began recording and uploading his show to his YouTube channel. Fb: Egyptian PresidencyPress Release on the Questioning of the Comedian. EFF: Egypt's Key Bloggers Face Absurd Legal Charges, Harassment. البرنامج - لقاء باسم مع جون ستيوارت - الحلقه 28 - جزء 3. Daily Show host Jon Stewart appears as 'captured foreign spy' on Egyptian TV. Jon Stewart drops by Egyptian satirical TV show. CAIRO Jon Stewart took the guest's seat Friday on Egypt's top satirical TV show, modeled after his own program "The Daily Show.
" Stewart was brought to the set wearing a black hood and introduced by host Bassem Youssef as a captured foreign spy. Stewart, wearing a scruffy beard, spoke briefly in Arabic as the studio audience gave him a raucous welcome. "Please sit down, I am a simple man who does not like to be fussed over," he said in Arabic to laughter. Jon Stewart appears on show of Bassem Youssef, "Egypt's Jon Stewart" Youssef, host of the show "Al-Bernameg" and one of Egypt's most popular TV presenters, has been questioned by prosecutors on accusations of blasphemy and insulting the president. Stewart, who is on a summer-long break from anchoring the Comedy Central fake newscast is in the Middle East making his first movie. "Satire is a settled law.