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Tuesday, 13 June 2017

Qatar, Tiran and Sanafir dominate the debate

Egypt’s two main sagas of the season — Qatar and the Tiran and Sanafir handover agreement — reigned supreme on the airwaves last night.

There seems to be widespread consensus among MPs to vote in favor of handing the islands over to Saudi Arabia, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Omar Marwan told Lamees Al Hadidi on CBC Extra. He explained that a technical committee reviewing evidence in the case, adding that maps from 2004-06 demonstrate that Egypt was merely “managing” the two islands for Saudi (watch, runtime 11:07).

On Qatar, Lamees spoke to an official from the Abu Dhabi Global Market, who said that reconciliation with Qatar is contingent upon the Statelet shutting down Al Jazeera, handing over members of the Ikhwan that it’s been harboring, and cutting off the flow of finance to terrorist groups (watch, runtime 1:07).

Over on Kol Youm, Amr Adib noted that reports in Al Jazeera suggested Doha has not been suffering and that Iranian and Israeli products have been flooding the Qatari market (watch, runtime 5:02).

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