Egypt
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref)
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Egypt
Abdel-Maqsoud sacked as head of GEM's supreme committee
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref)
More turmoil in Egypt's heritage management circles.
Mohamed Abdel-Maqsoud, head of the Supreme Committee of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), has been removed from his post following protests by employees.
Protests had accelerated over the last two days after the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) had refused to meet the protesters’ demands of a bonus every three months, a 15 per cent rise in incentives, and the resignation of Abdel-Maqsoud.
GEM employees sent a petition to Mustafa Amin, the SCA secretary general, asking for a reshuffle of the committee as its members were disrupting the GEM project and were remnants of the old regime. Amin said he would look into the matter.
In the petition, they also wrote, “All workers are exposed to deliberate persecution by the management through the withholding of bonuses and incentives, while committee members are paid almost one million pounds per month.”
Following two days of investigations by an SCA committee, Amin decided to discharge Abdel-Maqsoud.
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