The nation’s airwaves offered little in the way of actual news last night.

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Omar Marwan explained the structure of the government and parliament, and how his ministry operates in an interview with Al Hayah Al Youm’s Khaled Abu Bakr. Marwan described his ministry as “the government within parliament,” saying that its main role is to get the views of “the people,” as represented by the House of Representatives, across to the executive branch of the government. There is a good degree of “constructive cooperation” between the government and parliament, and little conflict between them, Marwan said (watch, runtime: 1:41).

Egypt’s beef with London auction house Christie’s over the USD 6 mn auctioning of a Tutankhamun sculpture got some airtime on Yahduth fi Masr.Authorities have handed over a request to the UK government to stop issuing permits for Egyptian artefacts sold at auctions to leave British soil, among other decisions taken in retaliation by the Egyptian National Committee for Antiquities Repatriation (NCAR), NCAR general supervisor Shaaban Abdel Gawad told host Sherif Amer (watch, runtime: 3:51). We have more on this in Egypt in the News, below.

New capital airport trial run: Amer also took note of the soft launch of a new facility, which will officially be known as the Capital International Airport (watch, runtime: 0:45).