01/04/2013
Video of the Egyptian satirist arrested for 'belittling' the president, 'insulting Islam'
p/pBassem Youssef is a big deal in Egypt, where his satirical news show has 30 million regular viewers, earning him the label, "a data-xslt="_http" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/01/02/egypt-bassem-youssef-jon-stewart-investigation/"Egypt's Jon Stewart/a." Youssef's funny, often cutting commentary has made him a thorn in President Mohammed Morsi's side as a high-profile source of withering criticism. It's also made him quite influential in Egypt, where humor a data-xslt="_http" href="http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/06/comedy-equals-tragedy-plus-egypt-a-twitter-parody-of-the-arab-glenn-beck/258673/"especially political satire/a has long been deeply valued./pa href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/video-of-the-egyptian-satirist-arrested-for-belittling-the-president-and-insulting-islam/2013/04/01/3b453226-9adf-11e2-9219-51eb8387e8f1_blog.html?wprss=rss_world"Read full article #62;#62;/aimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636708/s/2a36bcc1/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/161991138514/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/2a36bcc1/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/161991138514/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/2a36bcc1/a2.img" border="0"//aimg width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/161991138514/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/2a36bcc1/a2t.img" border="0"/
