the dangers that might come with a restoration of military authoritarian power. cos a lot of your very dark, biting humour was directed at the brotherhood and at mohamed morsi in particular. well, a lot of people don t really. they miss a little bit about the timeline because the first year of the show, the military council was still in power and a lot of my show kind of poked fun towards that. and then, the islamists came for a year, and then, i poked fun at them at the authority. and then, the military came, and they were extremely popular. they were loved. i always say, if you think in egypt that religion is sacred, the military is holy. a lot of people, they put the military in a much, much higher place. and when i did it with the muslim brotherhood, their channels were attacking me, they were calling me an infidel, they were like calling for me to be killed. and then when the military came, which are popular, i tried to do myjob too, and i
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that reflects my truth as an immigrant. because if i go out to theatres and comedy clubs and start to talk, this is what happened to me, please feel sorry for me, that is, first of all, that s not comedy. and last of all, that is not a reflection of my truth. and at the end of the day, i am right now, i m a citizen of the united states. what happens in the united states affects me much more than what happens in egypt. it affects my kids, it affects my children of colour, it affects me as an immigrant. the local elections in california affects me much more than the political situation in egypt. it doesn t say that i care about egypt less, but like right now, i m in a phase where i have to have my comedy being reflected by my truth and my lifestyle and my everyday life. i just wonder whether your commitment to satire is as strong as ever, because, you know, we discussed the limitations of satire in the face of power. do you still believe it is worth engaging in satirical comedy? absolu
on my inner experience, the whole thing about the plant based diet and wellness, a lot of people don t know that actually i started that in egypt before i left. it was not a rebound. i d just started that, but it was kind of overshadowed by my political satire show in egypt. and then when that was taken away, that kind of went out in the forefront. because of my medical background, iam interested in wellness and i m interested in reversing your disease, in using your lifestyle instead of medication, and i am actually having bigger project that is going to come and reveal this year in that space. in comedy, i m hoping to have my show to be sold as a special whether to netflix, amazon, one of these streamers, and i hope that my children s book becomes an animated series, and we are in negotiation with that. but other than that, i want to just say that something that is very, very common in interviews like this, and i hope that you have the capacity and the flexibility to hear me becaus
i found myself hosting the biggest show in the middle east and then having to leave all of that behind and come to reinvent myself and start all over again in a country that is not mine, performing to an audience that s not mine, with a language that s my second language. so i m kind of like, i m in a place now that i m kind of like looking forward instead of looking back. well, i m sad to say i m going to make you look back a little bit before we look forward. i want to look back to a pretty remarkable decision. i think it s fair to say it is not easy to train as a heart surgeon. it takes one heck of a lot of commitment and effort. why on earth, as still a young man in egypt, did you throw all that in to get into comedy and political satire? i have never planned to do that. i mean, despite the fact that i actually went into medicine not liking it very much, but i always joke about the fact that in the middle east, we go into.
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