“A Cairo court on Saturday dismissed a lawsuit filed by an Islamist lawyer demanding that a popular Egyptian satirist’s TV show be banned for allegedly insulting the president and containing excessive sexual innuendo.” The judge found that the complainant had no standing to bring a case against Bassem Youssef’s show, El-Bernameg (“The Program”).
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But There’s A New Case Against Satirist Bassen Youssef
“A new investigation has been launched against satirist Bassem Youssef for allegedly insulting Islam, spreading atheism and insulting Pakistan. Youssef, who still faces a recent investigation for insulting President Mohamed Morsi and Islam, recently had a court case against his show overturned.”
These Are The Jokes That Got Bassem Youssef Arrested
“Youssef is charged with insulting Morsi and showing contempt toward Islam, but he didn’t tell [CNN] which lines caused the biggest stir. So we went through and offer translations and explanations of 10 of his more provocative clips.”
The 18th-Century Moralist Who Tried To Raise His Own Stepford Wife
“There’s no shortage of historical figures whose private actions failed to live up to their public moralizing. (Thomas Jefferson, anyone?) But few embraced that hypocrisy as jaw-droppingly as Thomas Day.”
What Will Chile Gain From Digging Up Pablo Neruda?
“A statute of limitations, along with the likelihood that culpable figures are dead, make an authoritative verdict on Neruda’s death improbable. The exhumation is creepy. … The decision, which followed a request by Chilean Communists, seems motivated more than anything by a present-day desire to bury the past by, paradoxically, digging it up.”
Fiona Shaw On Playing The Mother of Christ
“There’s a Danish philosopher who has come up with the fascinating notion that actually the moment of despair, of Christ’s death, is the moment which we all need to be freed from – but not through resurrection. Just the fact that someone has dared to say there is this much despair in life may have in itself some healing potential.”
Roger Ebert’s Funeral – His Essential Quality
Roger Ebert — someone who loved and united people.
The Great Renaissance Polymath Who Got Everything (Well, Not Everything) Wrong
“[His] thirty-six books enticed the mind with their vast and encyclopedic erudition.” He understood myriad languages and fields of study. But he made up bodies of “knowledge” out of whole cloth, and “if he were around today, he would probably claim to have written Wikipedia single-handedly.” Meet Father Athanasius Kircher.
Digging Pablo Neruda (What Really Killed Him?)
“The remains of Chile’s Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda are being exhumed on Monday in a bid to determine the cause of his death after his assistant alleged he was murdered by Gen Augusto Pinochet’s military regime.”
Bigas Luna, 67, Who Burst Onto Spanish Film Scene After Franco Died
Luna “introduced Penélope Cruz to audiences and launched Javier Bardem as the embodiment of the Spanish stud. ‘I owe my career to Bigas Luna,’ Bardem said in 2001.”