Items related to Bassem Youssef

Al-Masry Al-Youm 22 Apr 2013
The owner and executive director of the private satellite TV channel CBC will be interrogated by the public prosecutor...
AFP 09 Apr 2013
The Public Prosecution is probing new complaints against popular satirist Bassem Youssef, this time for "insulting...
Egypt Independent
MENA
06 Apr 2013
The Cairo Administrative Court dismissed Saturday a lawsuit demanding that Bassem Youssef’s show be banned. The...
President's office tweet in response to criticism by US comedian Jon Stewart and US Embassy in Cairo over Bassem Youssef investigation.
Al-Masry Al-Youm 04 Apr 2013
The president's office retracted an earlier statement denying that it had sent an angry tweet to the US Embassy...
Heba Afify 04 Apr 2013
Al-Ahram newspaper declares that both Prosecutor General Talaat Abdallah and Prime minister Hesham Qandil will remain...
US embassy in Garden City, Cairo.
Egypt Independent 03 Apr 2013
  The US Embassy’s Twitter page was put back online on Wednesday evening, after the US Ambassador made a...
Al-Masry Al-Youm 03 Apr 2013
The Public Prosecution on Wednesday released stand-up comedian Ali Kandeel on LE5,000 bail after hearing testimony from...
Heba Afify 03 Apr 2013
The regime’s attempts to silence local satirist Bassem Youssef, often described as the Egyptian Jon Stewart,...
Al-Masry Al-Youm 03 Apr 2013
Popular Current Chief Hamdeen Sabbahi and Egypt Freedom Party Chief Amr Hamzawy have reached more than one million...
US Secretary of State John Kerry boards his plane to leave Ankara, for Cairo 2 March 2013.
AFP 03 Apr 2013
The United States has "real concerns" about the direction being taken by the Egyptian government following...