Hey there, I'm Amadalya Akbar, and this is See Something Say Something, the BuzzFeed podcast where we drink jai, tell stories, and talk about being Muslim in America.

We released the very first edition of our See Something Say Something newsletter this week, and you should definitely sign up for it.

You can find the sign up link at

buzzfeed.com slash see something say something slash newsletter. We're going to be sending

you good things to read, some good tweets, some of our thoughts. And also this week, we're going

to be raffling off two copies of Hennachan's book, Amina's Voice. So there's going to be a lot of good stuff in there,

and you should definitely sign up.

Also, we're going to be releasing a new halal or not video this week with Basim Yusuf,

which you can find on our Facebook page at See Something, Say Something.

Now on to the show.

If you see something, you better, you better say something.

Nothing at all, nothing at all.

So this week, I've got Basim Yusuf in the studio.

You may know him as Egypt's John Stewart.

Or also you might have seen him on his appearances on John Stewart's show, as well as Trevor

Noah and Stephen Colbert. We're going to be talking to him about satire and representation.

And then we're going to take those terrible, terrible Muslim pickup lines that you guys sent to us

last week after our relationships

episode, and me and Zanab Shah from BuzzFeed are going to read them and cringe.

Really hard, because they're terrible.

I'm joined by Basim Yusuf, the Egyptian satirist, whose wildly popular show, El Bernameg, was shut down due to government pressure in 2014, after which he fled to America where he now lives.

Since then, he's worked on a comedy show with Fusion, The Democracy Handbook with Basim Yousif, a memoir called Revolution for Dummies, Laughing Through the Arab Spring, and he's the center of a new documentary, Tickling Giants, which is being shown in limited screenings around the country right now. Welcome to the show, Basim. So this show is called See Something, Say Something. That's right. And your name is Ahmed Ali Akbar. I'm trying to do a little satire. I'm not as good at it as you. This will qualify as a bull's eyes on your back, right? So imagine like going through the customs. Like, hey, what's your name? Ali Ahmed Akbar. Hmm. Secondary inspection. What's your show called see something say something hmm

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