Egypt in the News on 5 September 2019

There is no single story driving the conversation on Egypt in the foreign press this morning. Of the few business-related stories out there is this Xinhua piece analyzing whether the Finance Ministry’s decision to float the customs exchange rate will push up inflation.

Meanwhile, the Guardian has a twofer on the allure of Egypt’s artefacts: Ruth Michaelson goes behind the scenes at the Grand Egyptian Museum to speak to proponents and critics of the USD 1 bn project due for completion at the end of next year. In a separate piece, Paul Owen writes that the record-breaking success of King Tutankhamun’s exhibition in Paris is far from surprising since “scarabs, pharaohs and man-eating monsters have been thrilling us for centuries.”