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Monday, 11 January 2021

Last Night’s Talk Shows on 11 January 2021

It was mixed bag of nuts on the airwaves last night:

Yesterday’s failed GERD talks unsurprisingly received attention, with Kelma Akhira’s Lamees El Hadidi (watch, runtime: 5:51) and Al Hayah Al Youm’s Mohamed Sherdy (watch, runtime: 2:48) both discussing developments which we recap in full, above.

The handball championship without an audience: Kelma Akhira (watch, runtime: 7:08) and El Hekaya (watch, runtime: 13:38) both covered the announcement yesterday that this year’s handball world championship will be held behind closed doors to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

The talking heads were beating the drum for internet privacy in response to the upcoming changes to Whatsapp’s privacy policy, which will allow Facebook to hoover up your personal data from 8 February. Security experts advised using Telegram or Signal to thwart the evil empire. See: Ala Mas’ouleety (watch, runtime: 4:51), Masaa DMC (watch, runtime: 15:58) and Amr Adib on El Hekaya (watch, runtime: 4:50).

(We’re hopping on a global bandwagon with that whole move-to-Signal thing — Turkey’s defense ministry and government media office are all dumping WhatsApp.)

Imported food prices to rise? So says Ahmed Shiha, member of the Importers Division, who claimed that the new requirement for food importers to hold a license — introduced last year by the Food Safety Authority for quality control — will result in higher prices (watch, runtime:10:38). A ban on food imports without a license came into effect last week.

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