When Sami Yusuf met Newsnight

Sami Yusuf has sold more than 34 million records. In short he’s a mega star. He’s been talking to our culture correspondent Stephen Smith. TRANSCRIPT: It was number 1 in Turkey for like two months. It was number 1 in Egypt for three months. You could consider it a hit. [It was] the first time a religious song, a devotional song, was being aired alongside belly dancing tracks, which was a big deal. Eventually what happened was I was branded as a Muslim popstar, rockstar. I remember my first concert. I coul