The airwaves offered up a variety of topics last night, ranging from President Abdel Fattah El Sisi’s visit to the UAE to the Mashrou’ Leila concert, which had the talking heads wearing out their soap boxes.

On Kol Youm, Amr Adib’s coverage of El Sisi’s visit to the UAE was more focused on the health of the two countries’ relationship than the actual events from the visit (watch, runtime 5:16). Adib concluded that El Sisi’s journey to the UAE is of greater significance than his visit to New York City earlier this month (watch, runtime 3:58).

Hona Al Asema’s Lamees Al Hadidi rang up Emirati political professor Abdel Khaled Abdullah, who expects the visit was a prelude to a renewed ramping up of pressure on Doha by the Arab quartet with further sanctions if it doesn’t meet their demands (watch, runtime 7:41). Lamees delved further into Qatar with TV, writer (and brother-in-law) Emad Adib, who said that Qatar is unlikely to acquiesce to the quartet’s demands regardless of punitive measures.

Emad Adib also said Egypt is probably putting in more effort to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict than the Palestinians themselves and predicted an imminent truce between the two sides (watch, runtime 1:51).

Egypt’s answer to the Moral Majority wants head on pikes, and it wants them now: The stench of moral indignation is heavy in the air after a number of concertgoers raised LGBTQ rainbow flags at a Mashrou’ Leila rock concert last week. At least seven people have since been arrested for allegedly unfurling the flags, and the issue exploded on the airwaves and on social media yesterday.

Lamees spoke to Musician’s Syndicate official Reda Ragab on the group’s decision to bar the Lebanese alt-rock band performing in Egypt again. After variously claiming that the act might not be Lebanese at all and blaming the security service for letting them into the country, Ragab declared the band is a threat “Egyptian morality” no less deadly than that posed by Daesh (watch, runtime 4:33). We’re sleeping better at night knowing the Musician’s Syndicate is pondering questions of national security.

Supreme Anti-Terrorism Council member Khaled Okasha told Masaa DMC’s Eman ElHosary that the concert’s organizers had no permits — and failed to notify the Interior Ministry that there would be a concert in the first place. Okasha said the event was therefore illegal and dangerous because security forces were not present to ensure attendees’ safety (watch, runtime 15:35).

No commentator last night had an issue with the arrest of the people alleged to have raised the rainbow flag. In fact, 90 Minutes host Moataz Demerdash kicked writer Mohsen El Balasy off his guest panel for having had the temerity to defend the flag-wavers (watch, runtime: 1:08). Needless to say, the arrests are the lead item on Egypt in the international press (see below), and the story will doubtless have several days of legs in it.