Egypt’s media council suspends talk show over guest’s racist comments

The Supreme Media Council has decided to suspend talk show Sheikh El Hara over an episode in which a guest made racist comments, the council said on Sunday. The guest had recounted a story in which he had a “nighttime rendezvous with three women … and was ‘shocked’ to discover the women were ‘Africans,’ referring to black sub-Saharans,” according to Ahram Online.