Egyptian-American comedian has been criticised for jokes and commentary about Israel and Palestine ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bassem Youssef, pictured in London last year, has returned to state TV. - Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP Egyptian-American comedian ...

The Bernie Mac Show creator Larry Wilmore is returning to the family comedy arena with a twist. Wilmore has partnered with comedian Bassem Youssef, known as Jon Stewart of Egypt, for a comedy about a ...

In a development many are linking to the Egyptian regime’s crackdown on dissent, Egypt’s most popular satirist announced this month that he was taking his program off the air. Bassem Youssef’s ...

You may have heard of Bassem Youssef, the Egyptian satirist often pegged as the “Jon Stewart of Egypt,” who fled his home county after three years of mocking his nation’s ruling elite over the ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

Egyptian comedian Bassem Youssef joins us in Cleveland, where he too is covering the Republican convention. His former show was known as “The Daily Show” of the Arab world for its satire of politics ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Egyptian satirist Bassem Youssef, who is known as “Egypt’s Jon Stewart," poses with his team with an English and Arabic placard ...

Egyptian-American comedian Bassem Youssef made headlines stateside as a new interview with Salon, contained claims from Youssef that he lost out on a role in Superman: Legacy because of his outspoken ...

Bassem Youssef has been through a lot. If you aren’t familiar with Youssef, he’s often described as “The Jon Stewart of Egypt,” but that’s more of a convenient shorthand. Youssef created and spent ...

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 ...

Egyptian-American comedian and satirist Bassem Youssef made a long-awaited comeback to Egyptian TV on Tuesday night, having been off air for more than a decade after going into exile following intense ...