Egypt should protect tourists from being disturbed by the Islamic call to prayer, top Egyptian archaeologist and former antiquities minister Zahi Hawass has said. Speaking on Egypt’s Balad TV, Hawass questioned the need for amplifying the call to prayer – known in Arabic as the adhan – on loudspeakers outside of mosques. “I was intrigued when [TV host] Ibrahim Eissa spoke on the history of the adhan, and that it was not done outside of the mosque,” Hawass said, referring to a recent television show in which Eissa also criticised the use of loudspeakers. “I stayed once at [Marriott] Mena House,…