Egyptian satirist Bassem Youssef speaks about revolutionary experience
CAP UCLA presented the performance on Wednesday, Jan. 18
The Daily Bruin offers a look at the Bassem Youssef performance in Royce Hall.
"An Egyptian comedian spoke about satire’s role in bringing down a dictatorship during his comedy show Wednesday night.
More than 1,500 students, faculty, alumni and community members attended Bassem Youssef’s show at Royce Hall, where he shared his experience as a satirist during the Egyptian revolution. UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance helped organize Youssef’s show, “The Joke Is Mightier than the Sword.”
Youssef said he was previously a heart surgeon, but decided to start his own television show in 2011 because he felt the media’s negative portrayal of protests against president Hosni Mubarak misled Egyptian citizens to oppose the revolution. Egyptian media portrayed pro-democracy protesters as violators of the country’s values."— Ankita Nair, January 22, 2017
Read the full article at the Daily Bruin website.