What I saw day-to-day is like people who are actually asking for freedom, calling for freedom - protesting, singing, chanting, calling for the removal of the regime - plain and simple. And of course there were clashes there because people, they tried to remove those protesters from Tahrir. And I was, like, doing my job as a doctor treating them.
Bassem YoussefPeople say, 'Are you afraid? Are you scared for your life?' and I tell them: If I choose today to tone it down, if I choose today to shut up, tomorrow me, you, and all of us will be forced to.
Bassem YoussefThe worst thing ever that you have to explain your joke because I was very disappointed trying to explain why the joke is funny for the interrogator.
Bassem YoussefI always tell people that a revolution is not an event, it's a process. It is a struggle. And it doesn't usually go smoothly.
Bassem YoussefThe only the way that you can live and function without seeing the facts in front of you is to put yourself in a constant state of denial.
Bassem Youssef