Last Night’s Talk Shows on 30 November 2020
It was wall-to-wall football on the talk shows last night:
Mansour + Zamalek board suspended: Masaa DMC's Eman El Hosary (watch, runtime: 2:50) and Ala Mas’ouleety’s Ahmed Moussa (watch, runtime: 6:04) highlighted the Sports Ministry's decision to suspend the Zamalek SC’s board amid investigations into its financial affairs. El Hekaya’s Amr Adib phoned Ashraf Sobhy, the sport Minister to comment on the decision (watch, runtime: 2:54).
Racism in football: Social media racism directed at Zamalek’s Shikabala in the aftermath of the club’s 2-1 loss to Al Ahly on Friday received attention from Al Hayah Al Youm’s Lobna Assal (watch, runtime: 7:46), Masaa DMC’s Eman El Hosary (watch, runtime: 10:42) and Kelma Akhira’s Lamees El Hadidi (watch, runtime: 5:14).
Gezira Sporting Club wants to expand: Naguib Sawiris dropped into Kelma Akhira (watch, runtime: 5:58) to speak in favor of real estate developers establishing branches of Gezira Sporting Club in their residential compounds. This came as club head Amr Jazzarin explained the plan to host Lamees El Hadidi (watch, runtime: 5:29).
Elsewhere: Executive director of the UN’s (and former minister) ODC Ghada Waly announced that Egypt would host an international conference on corruption in December 2021 during a wide-ranging interview with Lamees that tackled gendered violence, money laundering and international trafficking (watch, runtime: 33:42).