The Pan-Arabian Enquirer is the Middle East 's answer to The Onion . The satirical newspaper is often confused for fact . `` Even the terribly photoshopped picture , '' he marvels . In a recent interview with Al Jazeera, he said that his paper was not meant as an insult but rather a way of expressing frustration at what he sees as the lack of progress in resolving the Egyptian comedian Bassem Youssef was taken off the air earlier this month .
The Pan-Arabian Enquirer is the Middle East 's answer to The Onion . The satirical newspaper is often confused for fact . In a recent interview with Al Jazeera, he said that his paper was not meant as an insult but rather a way of expressing frustration at what he sees as the lack of progress in resolving the Egyptian comedian Bassem Youssef was taken off the air earlier this month .