Arts & Theatre

Bassem Youssef: The Belly of the Beast Tour

When

October 9 @ 7:30PM

Where

Balboa Theatre, 868 Fourth Avenue

Bassem Youssef was the host of popular TV show Al Bernameg ? the first political satire show in the Middle East. Originally a 5-minute show on YouTube, it became the first online-to-TV conversion in the Middle East, garnering 30 million viewers weekly, and over a million subscribers to its YouTube channel. In recognition of his success, he was named among Time Magazine's most influential list for 2013, under the ?Pioneers? category, awarded the International Press Freedom Award by the CPJ, and chosen by Foreign Policy magazine as one of the global thinkers during the same year. The first title