Actor
Bassem Youssef
Bassem Youssef
- Date of birth
- Age
- 52
- Place of birth
- Cairo, Egypt
- Citizenship
- Egypt, United States
- Occupations
- cardiac surgeon, satirist, columnist, television producer, writer, television presenter, physician
- Languages
- Arabic, English
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bassem Raafat Muhammad Youssef (born 22 March 1974), is a former Egyptian cardiac surgeon, satirist and columnist, who hosted Al Bernameg (The Program), 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 one of the "100 most influential people in the world" by Time magazine.
Education
- Cairo University Kasr Alainy Faculty of Medicine
Awards
- CPJ International Press Freedom Awards2013
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