Egypt
Youm7 (Dina Abdel Alem)
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Ahram Online With photo of the SCA protest. (There's also a photo of Hawass apparently trying to address the SCA protest on the BBC website). Protesting employees demonstrated Wednesday outside the ministry's Zamalek premises demanding better...
Egypt
Egypt's archeologists threatening strike if demands not met
Youm7 (Dina Abdel Alem)
Protesting archeology workers threatened to begin into work and hunger strikes, close all archeological sites, and steal monuments from museums and stores if their demands are not met.
Protestors are continuing their sit-in, which began Sunday, calling for the official appointment 12,000 workers in Supreme Council of the Antiquities.
- New Head Of Supreme Council Of Culture Has Much To Address
Egypt Independent Ola el-Saket Saeed Tawfiq, a professor of aesthetics at Cairo University, was appointed the new secretary general of the Supreme Council of Culture on Thursday, after the resignation of Camellia Sobhy. Sobhy, the first woman to head...
- German Scholarships To Supreme Council Of Antiquities
Youm 7 (Dina Abdel Aleem) German Institute for Antiquities in Cairo dedicated 40 training scholarships for workers at the Supreme Council of Antiquities in different archaeological specialties. The scholarships aim to train workers and specialists in...
- Islamic Monuments In Egypt's Muizz Street Are Threatened
Youm7 (Dina Abdel Alem Mohammad Awad) After being the biggest open-air museum in the world since it was restored three years ago, Muizz Street in old Cairo turned into public car park due to the absence of security. Thus the Islamic monuments are...
- Archaeologists Threaten Strike Over Unfilled Ministry Position
Al Masry Al Youm Egyptian archaeologists threatened to organize a strike and sit-in on Sunday if a ministry official is not immediately appointed to take charge of archeology-related affairs. The threat came in light of the repeated thefts and lootings...
- Sca Workers Call For Improved Conditions
Ahram Online With photo of the SCA protest. (There's also a photo of Hawass apparently trying to address the SCA protest on the BBC website). Protesting employees demonstrated Wednesday outside the ministry's Zamalek premises demanding better...