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El beit beitak

television program

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ5352382
Source-derived summary

El Beit Beitak ({Variously spelled El Beet Beetak, El bait baitak, or El bet betak) البيت ييتك, Egyptian Arabic for Feel at home, is a talk show on Egyptian television that features writers, entertainers and politicians.

History

El Beit Beitak (literally "the home is your home") first aired in October 2004 during Ramadan on Channel 1. It moved to Channel 2 and the Egyptian Satellite Channel. It is hosted by Mahmoud Saad, Tamer Amin and Khairy Ramadan. Its popularity influenced Egyptian public opinion. It primarily deals with current affairs, including politics, sports, art, gossip, business, and even fund raising.

Presenter Mahmoud Saad was a journalist on Sabah el Khair. This gave him firsthand knowledge of the Egyptian art and media industry. This knowledge, coupled with his personality and humanitarian sketches are key to the program's success. His limited English language skills were compensated with Amin's fluent English.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “El beit beitak” as television program. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where beit, beitak and television can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as television program. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5352382. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2004.

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This entry incorporates text from El beit beitak” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.