National Dialogue: The board of trustees overseeing the National Dialogue will hold its next meeting on 27 August. Interest rates: The Central Bank of Egypt will meet to discuss interest rates next Thursday, 18 August. MNHD shareholders have the final word on SODIC takeover bid: Madinet Nasr Housing and Development will hold a general assembly meeting on Tuesday, 16 August, to decide whether to allow SODIC to conduct due diligence ahead of a potential takeover. Ghazl El Mahalla IPO: The retail portion of Ghazl El Mahalla’s mini-IPO will wrap next Sunday, 14 August. Inflation data for July should land on Wednesday, 10 August. You can find more details on the schedule of the meetings here. Remember: The government holds workshops every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday to see how its plans will affect specific industries. Experts and think tanks will hold another round of talks on Thursday, 11 August.Higher education players will voice their thoughts on the privatization strategy tomorrow, 9 August.We have two more rounds of public consultations on the government’s state ownership policy coming up this week: Pachin has another potential suitor: EGX-listed Paint and Chemical Industries (Pachin) has received a non-binding offer from Universal Building Materials and Chemicals (Sipes) to acquire up to 100% of its shares.Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund could purchase United Bank from the Central Bank of Egypt before the end of the year, with due diligence close to wrapping.EGX boss Mohamed Farid has been appointed as acting chairman of the FRA for one year, the exchange announced yesterday. We have a new head of the Financial Regulatory Authority (FRA).** CATCH UP QUICK on the top stories from today’s EnterpriseAM: In a statement released after Israel and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) agreed to an Egypt-brokered ceasefire, Biden called on the Israeli and Palestenian parties to “fully implement the ceasefire and to ensure fuel and humanitarian supplies are flowing into Gaza as the fighting subsides.” Biden’s calls were heeded, as Gaza’s only power plant began operating again and Israel began to partially reopen crossings into the embargoed strip to allow humanitarian assistance, the Associated Press reports. The ceasefire in Gaza is getting some play in the international press, particularly after US President Joe Biden backed the agreement. ^^We’ll have more on this story and others in tomorrow’s edition of EnterpriseAM. CFC will set up the complex in partnership with Germany’s ThyssenKrupp, with an eye to begin construction next January and bring the plant online at the beginning of 2025. We have the first project that’s going to be implemented under the industrial partnership between Egypt, the UAE, Jordan, and Bahrain: Emirati fertilizers player CFC Holding will invest USD 400 mn to set up an industrial complex for fertilizers and feed production in Qena, Al Mal cites CFC CEO Ahmed Khalifa as saying. It’s only Monday, but it’s another day of good news on the business front.