The 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.

It doesn't matter if the truth is right there out in front of your eyes. You will find a way, a mechanism, in order to keep your own system of denial. So as I always say it, denial is a river that runs in the - in Egypt. So we became very good in that.

Satire has its limits. It is really up to the people to make the change. The satirist's role ends at the screen.

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.

I was accused of insulting the president, insulting Islam, insulting - spreading rumors, disturbing the peace.

It is very difficult to imagine that you can actually get rid of a dictatorship that has been there for 60 years only in 18 days.

People would believe propagate, spread rumors or conspiracy theories in order to protect their own system of denial.