The soon-to-launch national dialogue spearheaded by President Abdel Fattah El Sisi led the airwaves last night, after the event’s 19-member board of trustees was announced yesterday, according to a state information service (SIS) statement. Board members include lawmakers, journalists, and political and economic experts. The dialogue will start in the first week of July.

The selection reflects the diversity of society, Diaa Rashwan, the general coordinator of the dialogue and head of the Journalists’ Syndicate, told eXtraNews (watch, runtime: 6:52). The board of trustees will be tasked with managing the dialogue, he said, before presenting its recommendations to the presidency after review.

All of the dialogue’s sessions will be recorded, with the majority televised, Rashwan told Ala Mas’ouleety (watch, runtime: 3:36), adding that over 100k requests have so far been submitted by the public to take part. There was more coverage from Kelma Akhira (watch, runtime: 2:13), Ala Mas’ouleety (watch, runtime: 3:36) and Al Hayah Al Youm (watch, runtime: 2:31).

Every grain counts: Ala Mas’ouleety had positive coverage of the moves announced by the government yesterday to make our wheat supply stretch further — including by making flour from sweet potato (watch, runtime: 3:55). “We are with anything that the state [does] to preserve a grain of wheat amid such extraordinary circumstances,” Attia Hamad, head of the bakeries division at the Cairo Chamber of Commerce, told the program (watch, runtime: 4:04), in reference to the global commodities squeeze triggered by war in Ukraine. El Hekaya aso had coverage (watch, runtime: 3:09). Get the full details on the story in our Commodities section, above.