Farouk Hosni - Profile
Egypt

Farouk Hosni - Profile


http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/761/profile.htm
"Housed in a sedate 19th-century Zamalek villa, few things about the Ministry of Culture suggest the emotive nature of its principal occupant". Amongst his responsibilities are the SCA, the Cairo History Rehabilitation Project, the Nubia Museum in Aswan, the Alexandria National Museum and the construction are the Grand Museum of Egypt and the National Museum of Civilisation in Fustat.
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