It was another quiet night for the talking heads last night. With Amr Adib, Sherif Amer, and Lamees El Hadidi still on their summer break, the remaining hosts debunked rumors about the sale of assets owned by the Endowments Ministry, as well as covering the latest batch of presidential pardons and plans to manufacture a mini electric vehicle here.

Awqaf conspiracies debunked: The government has denied rumors circulating on social media that it has sold USD bns worth of assets owned by the Endowments Ministry. Therumors were apparently spurred by Saturday’s fire in one of the ministry’s buildings in Downtown Cairo. No documents were damaged in the fire as most of them have already been transferred to the ministry’s new headquarters in the New Administrative Capital, said spokesperson Abdallah Hassan in a televised interview on Masaa DMC (watch, runtime: 3:32.)

Also on the airwaves last night:

  • New pardons for pretrial detainees: The presidential pardon committee pardoned 33 pretrial detainees yesterday, including economist Omar El Shenety and human rights lawyer Youssef Mansour. (Lobna Assal on Al Hayah Al Youm | watch, runtime: 1:49)
  • Fresh Turkish investments on the way? “Turkish investors will pour around USD 100 mn into the Egyptian market in the coming few weeks,” saidAlaa Ezz, secretary-general of the Federation of Egyptian Chambers of Commerce. (Lobna Assal on Al Hayah Al Youm | watch, runtime: 3:40)
  • A new Egypt-made mini EV: The Academy of Scientific Research and Technology inked two contracts with unnamed private sector players to manufacture the first golf car-sized EV made in Egypt. It should hit the market in around nine months. (Ahmed Moussa on Ala Mas’ouleety | watch, runtime: 7:35)
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