The Washington Times Egypt banking on ancient attractions as Middle East unrest dents economy Mummies might be the solution to this country's tourism woes. Foreign visits to the Arab world's most populous country, long vital to Egypt's economy, have declined by around half in the wake of two passenger flight crashes, one a confirmed instance of terrorism, according to government statistics. But archaeological tourism is helping Luxor buck the trend in Egypt, where foreign visitors to the pyramids and Red Sea beaches contributed around 12 percent to the national economy in recent years. Home of the Valley of the Kings and the Karnak Temple, the largest religious complex on the globe, Luxor is experiencing a boomlet compared with Cairo, home to the Sphinx and Great Pyramid, and the coastal resorts of Sharm el-Shiekh. Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jun/27/egypt-banking-on-archaeological-tourism-rebound-as/ The Telegraph Egypt expels former BBC journalist Liliane Daoud British-Lebanese political talk show host Liliane Daoud was arrested and deported from Egypt late Monday night, immigration authorities said. "She had been expelled," said an official at Cairo airport, adding that the former BBC journalist who hosted a political talk show on Egyptian TV was put on an EgyptAir flight to Beirut that left at 21.30 GMT. Ms Daoud's lawyer Zyad el Eleimi said on Facebook that she had called him from the plane before the flight departed. Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/28/egypt-expels-former-bbc-journalist-liliane-daoud/ The Guardian Egypt says flight 804 'black box' fixed as France opens manslaughter case The flight data recorder of crashed EgyptAir flight MS804 has been successfully repaired, according to Egyptian authorities, as French investigators open a manslaughter investigation into how the jet headed from Paris to Cairo came down. The plane's two recorders – one containing flight data, the other carrying voice recordings from the flight deck – were handed over to French experts after they were recovered damaged from the wreckage in the Mediterranean and Egyptian investigators could not download their contents. The investigators in Egypt said on Monday that the repaired data recorder would be returned to Cairo for analysis of its contents, while the doomed plane's cockpit voice recorder was still being worked on. Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/27/egyptair-flight-ms804-manslaughter-inquiry-opens
