IN HIS OWN WORDS: Former Supply Minister Khalid Hanafy speaks about the circumstances surrounding his ouster (erm, resignation) in an interview with Amr Adib that aired Sunday on ONTV. Hanafy appears to hold no hard feelings. In the first part of the interview (runtime: 29:35), he praised the work of the House of Representatives’ committee investigating the wheat fraud. Having a minister resign because of political pressure from the legislative branch of government and public opinion (he incorrectly claims to have been the first in Egyptian history to have done so) is a sign of how far the country has come in terms of political maturity, he argues. In part two (runtime: 20:49), Hanafy addressed the controversy of his stay at the Intercontinental Semiramis, implying that the nature of MP Mustafa Bakry’s job as both media pundit and MP prompted his very political and entirely unsubstantiated attacks. At the end of the interview, one can’t help but feel sorry for the guy — doubtless the point of the exercise.