It was a packed night on the airwaves yesterday, with our favorite talk show host Lamees El Hadidi returning to our screens for the first of two episodes this week (the second of which airs tonight). Among the highlights: Egypt’s regional gas hub ambitions, GERD talks in Washington between Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan, and the Aramco IPO.

Egypt takes a leap toward its toward gas hub dream: Shares in East Mediterranean Gas, which owns the Arish-Ashkelon pipeline running between Egypt and Israel, have been transferred to Israel’s Delek Drilling, Texas-based Noble Energy and Egypt’s East Gas Company. The story drove the conversation in the region yesterday and got a fair amount of coverage on our airwaves. We have chapter and verse in Speed Round, below.

Al Kahera Alaan’s El Hadidi was among those who picked up the story (watch, runtime: 7:26). El Hadidi phoned former Oil Minister Osama Kamal, who spoke of the importance of the Israel agreement to Egypt’s plan to emerge as the region’s key energy hub.

Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry taking off to Washington for talks with Ethiopia and Sudan on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam gained some airtime on Hona Al Asema (watch, runtime: 6:35). We recap the story in What We’re Tracking Today, above.

Lamees took it a step further and got in touch with Hani Raslan, head of the Sudan and Nile Basin research center at Al Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, (watch, runtime: 18:48). Raslan pointed to the failure of the recent Russian-African summit in Sochi to produce a breakthrough in the deadlocked GERD negotiations and said the US is likely to steer the talks to a constructive outcome.

Adib talks Turkey with Palestine’s Dahlan: El Hekaya’s Amr Adib spoke to prominent Palestinian politician and Fatah politician Mohammad Dahlan about Turkish President Recep Tayyib Erdogan’s destabilizing activities in the region. You can watch several parts of the interview here (runtime: 0:54), here (runtime: 2:13), and here (runtime: 1:52).

Aramco IPO: El Hekaya devoted a decent segment to a phone call with Saudi business leader Hussein Shobokshi for a comment on the imminent Aramco IPO, which officially got underway yesterday (watch, runtime: 8:27). We have the full story in this morning’s Speed Round, below.

El Sisi, Madbouly meet with health, finance ministers to follow up on universal health care system: El Sisi and Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouly reviewed progress in national healthcare in a meeting with Health Minister Hala Zayed and Administrative Control Authority boss Sherif Seif El Deen, Ittihadiya said in a statement. The officials briefed the president on the implementation of the universal health insurance scheme — which piloted in Port Said governorate in July — and on the‘100 mn healthy lives’ initiative to end surgical waiting lists, which has so far spent EGP 1.9 bn on surgeries.

The meeting was widely talked about on the airwaves. Hona Al Asema’s Reham Ibrahim (watch runtime: 0:44 and runtime: 2:05) and Masaa DMC’s Eman El Hosary (watch, runtime: 0:54) were among those taking note. Adib, meanwhile, phoned Health Minister Hala Zayed for her two cents (watch, runtime: 6:16).