Revolution for Dummies: Laughing Through the Arab Spring, (Paperback)

from TeaTimeCoder

I picked it up without knowing what it was and it turned out to be engaging enough to finish, which is not something I would've predicted had I read the summary. Not very funny, unless you consider putting profanity in every sentence funny on its own. Talks about John Stewart a lot, which was los...

from Auntie-Nanuuq

This is the personal account of Bassem Youssef, an Egyptian heart surgeon turned media show host (aka Egyptian Jon Stewart) as he lived through and reported on/satirized the Egyptian Revolutions of the 21st Century.... Until such a time he was forced to flee Egypt for the u.s. for his & his famil...

from LibraryCin

Bassem Youssef was a doctor before the Arab Spring revolution in Egypt in 2011. After that, he started doing short satirical/political videos on youtube, and from there, he started a tv show, and he became known as the Egyptian Jon Stewart. This book chronicles Youssef's experience at this time i...

from Daumari

As the dust jacket mentioned, it's a sharply funny quick take on Egypt's bit of Arab Spring that will inform you enough to sound informed if Egyptian politics ever come up at parties. Bittersweet too, in the tumultuous shift from one overbearing fascist to another, wrapped in the guise of religio...