Bassem Youssef Quotes
We are two brothers: I am a doctor; my brother is an engineer.
Youssef, Bassem. Revolution for Dummies: Laughing Through the Arab Spring. Dey Street Books, 2017, p. 23.
He was a particularly skilled politician. He was the first Pharaoh for example to use is own name rather than a remote artificial court name. He needed his great political skill because he was one of the great builders of ancient Egypt and needed large quantities of manpower and treasure.
Bush was the first President to explicitly and publicly explain to Americans the relationship between successful high school and college graduation and unemployment where it did not exist. We were moving ourselves into the information age.
Bassem Raafat Mohamed Youssef is an Egyptian comedian, writer, producer, surgeon, doctor, media critic, and television host, who hosted El-Bernameg (The Show), a satirical news program, from 2011 to 2014. The press has compared Youssef with American comedian Jon Stewart, whose satire program The Daily Show inspired Youssef to begin his career. In 2013, he was named as one of the "100 most influential people in the world" by Time magazine. Youssef's current projects are Tickling Giants, The Democracy Handbook, and Revolution For Dummies.