Egyptian Comedy on YouTube Attracts Nearly 1 Million Views Published February 10th, 2021 - 07:39 GMT (Shutterstock)
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The director chose actors Amr Wahba and Shaima Saif to play the roles of robots Lathith and Zumba.
Egyptian comedy series “In Our House, Robot” (“Fi Baytena Robot”) currently shown on YouTube, has attracted nearly one million views.
The series’ plot revolves around talented engineer “Youssef” (Hesham Gamal) who owns a technology company he founded with two classmates after graduating from university.
This week s podcast guest on the Egyptian Streets Podcast is Bassem Youssef @Byoussef, who shares all about his experiences with El Bernameg, plant-based diets, standup comedy, and his constant reinvention of himself.
“Posting naked pictures, candy, holograms, and products with sexual expressions and fallen revelations is legitimately forbidden and legally criminal,” the Egyptian Islamic governmental body, Dar Al-Ifta, explained in a statement posted to Facebook. The statement continued to state that it was “an assault on the value system.”
“One one level it’s hard not to be initially struck by the absurdity of penis cupcakes garnering the attention of state prosecutors, police investigators, members of parliament and the regime-controlled press. At the core of the matter is not the banning of sexuality in the public sphere, it is restricting sexuality that is outside the control of men,” explained Timothy E. Kaldas, a non-resident Fellow from the Tahrir Institute of Middle East Policy, according to The Guardian.