Egyptian-American comedian Bassem Youssef speaks to Oxford Union President Ebrahim Osman-Mowafy about his move to the United States, facing Piers Morgan for the third time and why he is working with NBC.
Mr Youssef worked for 13 years as a surgeon in Egypt before switching to a career in media in 2011. Fearing arrest by the al Sisi regime, Youssef left Egypt for Dubai in 2014. He later relocated to the United States and in November 2015, he hosted the 43rd International Emmy Awards.
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The hypocrite Western institutions allowing this "disgraceful clown 🤡" to address people on behalf of Muslims and at the same time denying respectful intellectual like Mohamed Hijab from appear in such popular platform
Wow, islamists "comedians" on OxfordUnion. The UK is truly lost.
great…another garbage liar
Arabs cant stand Jewish success, it hurts them to the core. The fact that a Jewish state which is far more successful per capita than its neighbors even exists, boils their blood. Bassem might not be anti-Jew, but rest assured most arabs and moose lems are against Israel whenever the subject comes up, no matter who's on the other side.
Oxford University? Please tell me what is taught in the language courses there if anything? In classification of languages and more so the grouping of many languages by region? Is Semite an academic word used to categorize about about a half a dozen languages and people groups? In a region as large as all of Arabia to Northeastern Africa? What are those languages and peoples?
Best talk by Yousuf
These people speak openly as if they are saints but behind closed doors are Muslims at heart
This “man” is inciting violence against Jews as we saw in Amsterdam and in France. He should be ashamed of himself.
#Ameen Bassam is just so smart & wise..
we have no democracy here in the United States
Brilliantly calling out propaganda ❤
I agree re boycott of the media but boycotting companies, products is very important!
Maybe if the polls had predicted Trump, more people would’ve held their nose and voted for Kamala. There is no influencing Trump, he’s an angry narcissist.
Thank you
He forgot Norman Finkelstein, he lost tenure.
This is funny, he is right. There has never been a woman Arab leader as far as I'm aware. Just like Ra-see-ya and the great US of A. Maybe in the ancient, ancient times but not modern.
Actually, no its not funny.
When a person has been accused of being an agent for CIA, Mossad, Iran and so on, but his actions and his conversation and commentary is honest, you know he is hated for just speaking the truth. Well done to people like Bassem Yousef for speaking the truth.
….HOW???? IS THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY inviting such a shallow and superficial speaker – calling himself a comedian – nobody else would, since he is neither funny nor thoughtful
Respect for baseem ❤
They might try to recreat the ongoing history, but it is their own history, we know where we stand in history, past and present..love from Algeria Algeria Algeria. .
Free Palestine 🇵🇸 from zionists and zionism
The TRUTH https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Prk8sjzEyNA
This conversation looks like it’s being shadow banned