It is very difficult to imagine that you can actually get rid of a dictatorship that has been there for 60 years only in 18 days..

Satire has its limits. It is really up to the people to make the change. The satirist's role ends at the screen..

Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence..

What I saw day-to-day is like people who are actually asking for freedom, calling for freedom - protesting, singing, chanting, calling for the remova….

People would believe propagate, spread rumors or conspiracy theories in order to protect their own system of denial..

I think by the time I left Egypt, there was about like 400 accusations against me in the drawer of the public persecutor office. It's a way for them ….

People went out there and they wrote articles and went on television shows saying that I am an operative that the CIA who used Jon Stewart to recruit….

The way that things happen in Egypt, the government - or the head of the government - don't get personally involved. They were always goonies and age….

People say, 'Are you afraid? Are you scared for your life?' and I tell them: If I choose today to tone it down, if I choose today to shut up, tomorro….

The worst thing ever that you have to explain your joke because I was very disappointed trying to explain why the joke is funny for the interrogator..

I think that the religious and the military right wings are just two sides of the same coin if somebody uses God and religion and somebody uses count….

I don't care about Donald Trump himself. I care and I worry about the very big base that supports him because this kind of language would have been a….

There are people who believe in Egypt that I - I'm actually - I'm getting paid by external powers and external intelligence entities in order to use ….

The only the way that you can live and function without seeing the facts in front of you is to put yourself in a constant state of denial..

We have Internet now and people are not stupid. But it seems that some people are trying to push the same agenda of the Cold War of conspiracy theori….

It doesn't matter if the truth is right there out in front of your eyes. You will find a way, a mechanism, in order to keep your own system of denial….

It is very depressing to see that in the 21st century people are still using the same 1950s and '60s style of propaganda..

I always tell people that a revolution is not an event, it's a process. It is a struggle. And it doesn't usually go smoothly..

I'm sure even in America, where you have, like, free speech people self-censor themself. And it's not - it happens because of different reasons. Beca….

Everybody grows up with comedy. I mean, Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing..

I was accused of insulting the president, insulting Islam, insulting - spreading rumors, disturbing the peace..