The airwaves served us with a random assortment of terribly non-exciting topics last night, with coverage of the latest happenings in the Investment Act being the most thrilling of the lot (we have more on that in Speed Round).

Masaa’ DMC’s Osama Kamal spoke House Economic Committee member Rep. Ahmed Farghal about his squabble with Trade Minister Tarek Kabil during the session. Kabil objected to amendments to the act that would give GAFI supreme power over the allocation of land to business and industry (watch, runtime 11:40).

On Al Hayah Al Youm, host Tamer Amin talked to Cabinet Spokesperson Ashraf Sultan about the new EGP 250 mn joint stock company that the IDA will establish to manage industrial zones (watch, runtime 4:14). He then moved on to talk about recent amendments to the Antiquities Law that are meant to help in the recovery of tourism and include stricter penalties for harassing visitors at tourist sites or peddling products without the necessary licenses.

Antiquities Minister Khaled Enany rang up Lamees El Hadidy to chat about other steps the ministry is taking to boost the sector, such as offering discounts to production companies on shoots at touristic sites (watch, runtime 5:15).

Lamees then moved on to the 1.5 mn feddans project, and spoke to the chair of the House’s Agriculture Committee El Sayed Hassan Moussa about his concerns that water resources available to the land reclamation project are insufficient. The Director of the Finance Ministry’s PPP Unit and Chairperson of Al Reef Al Masry Atter Hannoura, however, refuted the claims and told Lamees that the studies conducted in the area prove otherwise (watch, runtime 17:28).