Media Type:
TV Shows
Title
El Bernameg - Season 2 Episode 15 (Part 2)
Subject
Satirical news show
Description
This episode made fun of various comments made by then president Mohamed Morsi and led to Bassem Youssef's arrest for insulting the president and showing contempt towards religion.
Youssef plays on various widely-held beliefs about Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood, including that the then president was controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood Guidance Bureau and unable to make his own decisions and that he was totally inept and without any coherent policies.
Mohamed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood and their supporters were regularly ridiculed by Youssef on his show. Whilst some of his satire was based on political criticism, he also drew on cultural prejudices held by many secular-oriented Egyptians, that demonised the Brotherhood as 'backward' and treasonous.
Further episodes from this season available on YouTube.
Creator
Bassem Youssef
Source
Publisher
Albernameg
Date Published
Rights
Standard YouTube License
Related Resources
Language
Arabic/English
Date Created
01/03/2013
Tags
Citation
Bassem Youssef, “El Bernameg - Season 2 Episode 15 (Part 2),” Politics, Popular Culture and the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, accessed December 11, 2024, https://egyptrevolution2011.ac.uk/items/show/177.