 He was forced to quit Dubai TV after criticizing Arab governments and subsequently hosted the show on the Libyan channel Al-Libiya for two months before the Libyan government cancelled it.He returned to Egypt and wrote for the "Al-Masry Al-Youm" newspaper and then "Al-Shorouk", but his association with the latter ended as a result of a libel suit brought on by then-Egyptian foreign minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit in response to a column critical of Egyptian foreign policy written by Qandil in May 2010.The case was later dropped following the 2011 Egyptian Revolution.