It was another quiet night on the airwaves last night. With Lamees El Hadidi, Amr Adib and Sherif Amer still on their summer breaks, Al Hayah Al Youm’s Lobna Assal, Ala Mas’ouleety’s Ahmed Moussa, and Masaa DMC’s Eman El Hossary were left to cover a variety of topics including yesterday’s Egypt-Palestine-Jordan talks in Alamein and a new Egypt-made railcar.

Made-in-Egypt rolling stock: Al Hayah Al Youm (watch, runtime: 1:44) and Ala Mas’ouleety (watch , runtime: 11:29) both covered the Arab Organization for Industrialization’s delivery of a locally-assembled metro train that will operate on Metro Line 3. AOI head Mokhtar Abdel Latif said that 40% of the components used for the rolling stock were sourced from local suppliers.

We received zero information on yesterday’s Egypt-Palestine-Jordan talks: Interviews on Al Hayah Al Youm with an advisor to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (watch, runtime: 9:16) and local journalist Bilal El Dawy (watch, runtime: 28:27) provided no details on yesterday’s three-way meeting between President Abdel Fattah El Sisi, Abbas, and Jordan’s King Abdullah in Alamein. None of the sides have released public statements following the talks, with only Palestinian media reporting ahead of the meeting that the three leaders would discuss regional and international issues.

Al Aqmar Mosque gets a facelift: The historic Al Aqmar Mosque in old Cairo’s El Moez Street reopened yesterday following renovation works, earning coverage from Masaa DMC (watch, runtime: 4:49).

Covid-19: Masaa DMC interviewed an immunity specialist to reassure viewers about the new sub-variant of covid-19, who said that symptoms of EG.5 / Eris are akin to the common cold (watch, runtime: 6:48). The Health Ministry yesterday said that it is closely monitoring the new strain of the virus.

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