It was a quiet night on the airwaves last night, as many of the nation’s talking heads, including Amr Adib and Lamees El Hadidy, took the evening off to attend the inaugural Saudi-Egyptian Nights concert at the Cairo Opera House. However, it wasn’t completely a night off for Amr Adib, who took to the stage to tell the audience and those watching from home that, “This is not just a concert — this event holds many meanings that everyone here understands that very well. It demonstrates the cooperation between Egypt and Saudi, and it demonstrates the strength of the decades-long relationship between the two countries” (watch, runtime: 3:09).

But for the talking heads whose invites to the concert must’ve been lost in the mail, the topic of the day was the economy: The National Dialogue will meet next week to discuss the economy with the participation of the government, the dialogue’s general coordinator Diaa Rashwan told Kaswaa Elkhelaly (watch, runtime: 6:50). “We hope to have proposals for solutions to the economic crisis that will be submitted directly to the president by the end of next week. We are trying to come up with specific things that are implementable and urgent and answer the question of how and when,” Rashwan added.

“The government will issue executive regulations for the Building Reconciliation Law no later than February 22,” cabinet spokesperson Mohamed El Homsani said in a phone call with Azza Mostafa (watch, runtime: 5:56). “The prime minister is pushing to ease the process of the reconciliation process, and is taking measures to eliminate any future violation of the law,” El Homsani added.

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