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Wednesday, 26 May 2021

Last Night’s Talk Shows: Diplomacy, diplomacy, and more diplomacy

It was diplomacy as far as our eyes could see and our ears could hear on the airwaves last night, mirroring a news cycle in the print press that was almost entirely focused on diplomacy. The key topics:

Blinken in the region + Biden and El Sisi’s call: Kelma Akhira’s Lamees El Hadidi took note of US Secretary of State’s regional peacebuilding tour (watch, runtime: 3:33), while Ala Mas’ouleety’s Ahmed Moussa hosted pundit Abdel Moneim Said for his two cents on President Abdel Fattah El Sisi’s most recent phone call with US President Joe Biden earlier this week (watch, runtime: 10:27). The Palestine-Israel crisis is now part of the considerations in the US’ strategy on Iran, as Washington and Tehran work on a revived nuclear agreement, pundit Emad Eldin Adib told Lamees. Tehran maintained its distance from the latest conflict in Palestine, despite historically supporting Hamas as part of Iran’s proxy war with Israel, suggesting the country did not want to risk upsetting the US as it seeks to bring it back into the 2015 nuclear agreement (watch, runtime: 22:52).

Warming up with Qatar: Al Hayah Al Youm (watch, runtime: 8:23) and Masaa DMC’s Ramy Radwan (watch, runtime: 1:19) each reported on Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani’s sit-down with El Sisi and Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry yesterday. Lamees also took note of the importance of the visit in accelerating a return to Egypt and Qatar’s friendlier relationship before tensions began in 2013 (watch, runtime: 2:09). We have the full story in this morning’s news well, above.

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