Lamees is back on the airwaves as she soft-launches a new show: After a long absence from the small screen, the queen of nighttime talk is back: Lamees El Hadidi quietly launched Al Kahera Alaan on Al Hadath TV, marking her return to the airwaves with an interview with the IMF’s David Lipton on what the international lender could do to help the government in Beirut handle ongoing protests (watch, runtime: 04:07).

It’s not the Egyptian business / economy-focused show of old — not necessarily a surprise when you consider she’s appearing on a regionally-focused broadcast platform that’s owned by Al Arabiya. After the Lipton-Lebanon segment, Lamees segued into a discussion of GERD and an in-studio interview with former irrigation minister Nasr Allam, followed by sit-downs with her fellow Al Hadath anchors and an hour-long interview with Tunisian actor Dhafer Al Abdeen.

The show begins for Lamees’ Egyptian audience tomorrow, we suspect: That’s when she is scheduled to run a longer interview with Lipton about Egypt, while an interview with Egyptian national football team manager Hossam Albadry is set to be the lighter segment. The show runs for two hours — half broadcast live on Al Hadath TV and the other half broadcast solely on social media platforms, the outfit says in a statement. You can catch all the details on the show’s Youtube channel.

Egypt bears responsibility for the crisis over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam,and should’ve been the one to build it for Ethiopia, prominent space scientist and geologist Farouk El Baz tells El Hekaya’s Amr Adib (watch, runtime: 01:09). El Baz said Egypt already had experience in the area and should have guided Addis Ababa with its expertise and connections, instead of letting the crisis unfold for years before suddenly waking up to a problem.

President Abdel Fattah El Sisi visited the Military Academy yesterday, Al Hayah Al Youm’s Lobna Assal noted (watch, runtime: 04:17). El Sisi also met the governor of El Monoufeya to focus on infrastructure and SME initiatives (watch, runtime: 03:35).

The inauguration in Heliopolis yesterday of the largest metro station in the Middle East also earned some airtime with Assal (watch, runtime: 06:03). Hona Al Asema’s Reham Ibrahim and Adib were also excited about it (watch, runtime: 05:51) and (watch, runtime: 03:28). We have more on this in this morning’s Automotive + Transport section, below.