Egypt
Past Horizons (Jack Shenker)
- Cairo: Egyptology In Crisis
Current World Archaeology (Tom St John Gray) March 29, 2012. Issue 49. A lengthy extract from a longer artcile. This chunk of the article mainly deals with the career of Zahi Hawass. After the dramatic departure of President Hosni Mubarak, attention...
- More Re Hawass Loss Of Position In Reshuffle
I will continue to add to this post throughout today if any new information turns up, but I won't repeat anything that has already appeared on either this post or yesterday's. Although the interim government have clearly submitted to protester...
- Egypt’s Chief Archaeologist Defends His Rights (and Wrongs)
Biblical Archaeological Review (Hershel Shanks) On Sunday, January 16, I interviewed Zahi Hawass in his office in Zamalek, the elegant Cairene island in the Nile and home of the Gezira Sports Club, from which Hawass commanded an army of 32,000 employees...
- Pride Cometh Before A Fall
Al Ahram Weekly (Jill Kamil) Apologies that this is so out of date (6th March), but it may be useful to anyone who missed it. Zahi Hawass, the international face of Egypt's archaeology for some 10 years, has admitted that he was no longer able to...
- Egypt Labour Unrest Extends To Antiquities Minister
Daily Caller (Christopher Torchia) The man in charge of Egyptian antiquities starred in a TV show about his exploits, sports an “Indiana Jones”-style fedora and triumphantly declared that the nation’s heritage was mostly unscathed after the revolt...
Egypt
Egypt’s man from the past who insists he has a future
Past Horizons (Jack Shenker)
No one interviews Zahi Hawass, Egypt’s self-styled Indiana Jones of the east – he interviews himself, fist pounding on desk and spittle flying forth into the ether.
“Do I look like a minister to you? Of course not!” thunders the minister for antiquities, a man appointed by Hosni Mubarak to oversee his nation’s cultural riches and, improbably, the great survivor of this year’s dramatic revolution.
“I am not part of the old regime – I love Egypt, I love archaeology and I will never be a politician,” Hawass continues. “I’m a damned archaeologist through and through.”
Zahi’s strength of feeling is understandable. The 63-year-old headed Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) from 2002 onwards. Like so many other Mubarak-era public figures he is struggling to carve out a role in post-uprising Egypt.
He is desperate to hammer home his apolitical virtues but after accepting a cabinet job as the regime was beginning to crumble and then taking to the airwaves in early February to declare ”we need President Mubarak” the task was always going to be tricky.
- Cairo: Egyptology In Crisis
Current World Archaeology (Tom St John Gray) March 29, 2012. Issue 49. A lengthy extract from a longer artcile. This chunk of the article mainly deals with the career of Zahi Hawass. After the dramatic departure of President Hosni Mubarak, attention...
- More Re Hawass Loss Of Position In Reshuffle
I will continue to add to this post throughout today if any new information turns up, but I won't repeat anything that has already appeared on either this post or yesterday's. Although the interim government have clearly submitted to protester...
- Egypt’s Chief Archaeologist Defends His Rights (and Wrongs)
Biblical Archaeological Review (Hershel Shanks) On Sunday, January 16, I interviewed Zahi Hawass in his office in Zamalek, the elegant Cairene island in the Nile and home of the Gezira Sports Club, from which Hawass commanded an army of 32,000 employees...
- Pride Cometh Before A Fall
Al Ahram Weekly (Jill Kamil) Apologies that this is so out of date (6th March), but it may be useful to anyone who missed it. Zahi Hawass, the international face of Egypt's archaeology for some 10 years, has admitted that he was no longer able to...
- Egypt Labour Unrest Extends To Antiquities Minister
Daily Caller (Christopher Torchia) The man in charge of Egyptian antiquities starred in a TV show about his exploits, sports an “Indiana Jones”-style fedora and triumphantly declared that the nation’s heritage was mostly unscathed after the revolt...