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 would believe propagate, spread rumors or conspiracy theories in order to protect their own system of denial.
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 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 YoussefSatire has its limits. It is really up to the people to make the change. The satirist's role ends at the screen.
Bassem YoussefPeople went out there and they wrote articles and went on television shows saying that I am an operative that the CIA who used Jon Stewart to recruit me. So Jon Stewart, who actually - a guy from America was used by the CIA in order to recruit me for the CIA and be - make me a CIA agent to use sarcasm to bring down the government and bring down the country because this was all, of course, part of a worldwide conspiracy against the country.
Bassem Youssef