All things random was the theme of last night’s talk shows

With no single topic to unify the conversation on the airwaves, the talking heads busied themselves with a range of issues.

A hike in foreign holdings of Egyptian treasuries was highlighted by Al Hayah Al Youm’s Lobna Assal, who noted that foreign holdings in Egyptian debt rose to USD 12 bn in January after losing as much as USD 10 bn over the past year (watch, runtime: 01:00). We have more on this in this morning’s Speed Round, below.

Echoes from Macron’s trip to Egypt: Masaa DMC’s Osama Kamal highlighted France’s Le Figaro quoting French President Emmanuel Macron as saying that Egypt plays a strategic role in combating terrorism (watch, runtime: 04:54), while Al Hayah Al Youm took note of Egypt’s Public Prosecution slamming a 2017 Human Rights Watch report after Macron brought up Egypt’s human rights record (watch, runtime: 03:50).

Also on the airwaves last night:

• An agreement Egypt signed last week with financial advisory firm Lazard at Davos came up on Al Hayah Al Youm (watch, runtime: 09:08);
• Tens of families have been resettled after yet another Manshiet Nasser rockslide (watch, runtime: 04:48 and runtime: 09:03);
• Sherif Amer lambasted social media campaign “Let her be a Spinster,” whose allusion to the “Let it Rust” automotive campaign essentially compares women to cars as commodities (watch, runtime: 00:30).