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Al-Araby
Al-Araby TV, the home of the Joe Show, is part of the same family that includes al-Araby al-Jadeed newspaper and The New Arab. Stay tuned each week for a translated round-up of the funniest jibes on Joe Show and English-language subtitled clips from the show’s most biting digs. This week’s round up is chosen from episodes 24. Egypt’s meta-prison In early November, Egypt inaugurated a new prison complex at Wadi al-Natrun. Now we all know Egypt is a police state, but its attempt to emulate high-tech dystopian regimes is often tragicomic because of the execution (no pun intended). Every night, th…