Egypt
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Egypt
Egypt dismisses UNESCO warning against its relics
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"Egypt's Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni here Thursday dismissed as baseless reports that the UNESCO had warned to strike off some Egyptian monuments from world heritage.Hosni told Egypt's state-run Middle East News Agency (MENA) that the Egyptian prime minister had decided to regard archaeological sites in Thebes and Menf areas as 'archaeological reserves' for world human civilization heritage, pointing to great cooperation with the UNESCO in this context.Echoing Hosni's remarks, Zahi Hawwas, secretary-general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), said there was complete cooperation between his council and the UNESCO in the archaeological domain.He denied that the UNESCO might have warned to remove some Egyptian monuments from the global heritage list, noting that the SCA and the Ministry of Culture were taking all necessary arrangements to safeguard Egypt's archaeological sites."
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- More Re Unesco Assistance For Egypt
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) During a meeting held yesterday at the Supreme Council of Antiquities’ (SCA) offices, the director of UNESCO’s cultural department Tamara Twinasky announced UNESCO’s full collaboration with the SCA to restore and preserve...
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Egypt State Information Service Culture Minister Farouk Hosni gave the go-ahead for a program to train museum secretaries and antiquities inspectors nationwide. The project, in tandem with UNESCO, aims to train young archaeologists, said Zahi Hawwas,...
- Satellites Identifies 132 Archaeological Sites In Egypt Have Not Been Excavated
Egypt State Information Service Culture Minister Farouk Hosni said that the researches which conducted via satellites have confirmed the existence of 132 archaeological sites in Egypt that witnessed no excavations until now. Farouk Hosni said Egypt's...
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Daily News Egypt The Egyptian government announced Monday that it was nominating Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni as a candidate for the position of director general of the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco). There...
- No Farouk Hosni For Director General Of Unesco
Mr Hosni has said amongst other things that he would personally burn all Israeli books in Egyptian libraries and as a result he is an inappropriate choice to represent the preservation of world heritage which whether Mr. Hosni likes it or not includes...