It is very depressing to see that in the 21st century people are still using the same 1950s and '60s style of propaganda.

There are people who believe in Egypt that I - I'm actually - I'm getting paid by external powers and external intelligence entities in order to use satire to bring down the government.

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

I 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.

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.

I think that the religious and the military right wings are just two sides of the same coin if somebody uses God and religion and somebody uses country and security.

I think by the time I left Egypt, there was about like 400 accusations against me in the drawer of the public persecutor office. It's a way for them to exhaust you, to push you, to put you under pressure, to distract you.