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There haven't been any stable institutions for quite a while – and the military was seen as the last bastion of stability and recourse," said Bassem Sabry, a prominent Egyptian columnist.

The situation is due in part to the army's decades-old popularity, argues Bassem Sabry, and the fact that many Egyptians – following a turbulent two-year democratic experiment – remain more comfortable with a strongman at the helm.

A subculture of irreverence forms an increasingly strong counterpoint to the apparent dominance of public piety.One illustration is the immense popularity across the region of Bassem Youssef, an Egyptian comic and talk-show host.

In "Dreams of Water", Aneesa, a young Lebanese woman, flees Beirut for London after her brother Bassem is kidnapped and is never seen again.

In Egypt, Bassem Youssef, a doctor-cum-comedian, has bravely called for discussion rather than hostility.

Though the conversations revealed nothing nefarious, the fact that the tapes could have been supplied only by security agencies has fuelled concern of a return to widespread government eavesdropping.This is precisely the point, says Bassem Youssef, a popular satirist whose ridicule undermined Mr Morsi but has not been tolerated by the current regime, either.

"It's like, thank god we got rid of the Muslim Brotherhood, we're not a jihadist Islamist republic, and we would do whatever it takes [to keep the Brotherhood from power], even if that means sacrificing a few liberties," explained Bassem Youssef, a famed television satirist who was investigated under Morsi and whose show was cancelled during the Sisi era.

Egypt's public prosecutor, recently appointed by Mr Morsi over furious objections from his peers, has ordered a probe into a television satirist, Bassem Youssef, whom Islamist litigators accuse of insulting the president.

Among the many factors that combined to undermine Mr Morsi, perhaps the most powerful one, for a public long attuned to applying humour as a salve for daily woes, was ridicule.No single individual was responsible for heaping so much of it on the unfortunate president, so effectively, as the comedian Bassem Youssef.

In May a popular comedian, Bassem Youssef, outpolled Mr Morsi by more than two to one when Egyptians were asked to identify public figures they respected as a leader.

Some brandishing banners proclaiming: "No to Direct Negotiations: against the US and Israeli conditions", their message was summed up by Bassem Salahi, the secretary general of the leftist Palestinian People's Party, who told the crowd: "Yes for peace but peace without settlements.