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Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Bassem Youssef ends his show

Egypt's TV satirist Bassem Youssef shut down his show, "citing unspecified political pressure and threats".

No doubt newly elected Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is feeling a little smug, having succeeded where his predecessors Hosni Mubarak and Mohamed Morsi failed. He has bought his own comfort, though, by impoverishing his country's culture.

You may have been a general, el-Sisi, but you aren't a strong or wise leader. Strong and wise leaders don't fear criticism: they learn from it.

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