Egypt
- Luxor Court Sentences 11 People For Stealing Antiquities
Egypt Independent The Luxor Criminal Court on Tuesday sentenced in absentia six people to life imprisonment and five others to 10 years in prison for armed robbery of the antiquity storage area belonging to the German mission in...
- Ministry Of State For Antiquities Denies Hawass' Escape Rumours
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) Today, the criminal court of Agouza acquitted Minister of State for Antiquities Zahi Hawass of the charge issued for not implementing the administration court ruling to put on halt all procedures being taken to rent the cafeteria...
- Hawass Faces Criticisms About His Job, Ties To Mubarak
Washington Post (Philip Kennicott) After two months of revolution and recrimination, which has seen him in and out of power, he is madly multitasking: Struggling to preserve ancient sites from theft and the encroachment of illegal construction, while...
- Hawass And The Designer Clothing Line
Hawass again found himself under fire in the headlines, this time for selling his name to a clothes designer who launched a clothing line named after him, currently for sale in Harrods. Part of the furor was that seemed as though they had used the Egyptian...
- Zahi Hawass And The Museum Giftshop
Talking Pyramids (Vincent Brown) Vincent has written a fascinating piece about the politics surrounding the gift ship of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Here's his introduction: The new Museum gift shop that was looted during the recent revolution in...
Egypt
Hawass and the avoided prison sentence
Hawass has been figuring very prominently in the headlines at the moment, partly because of the clothing line he gave his name to (see post below) but mainly because of the prison sentence which he has now apparently escaped. A law suit had been brought against him for failure to comply with a court ruling regarding the gift shop in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. The judgment and sentence were fought in a court of appeal and the the original court's ruling was overturned.
Articles and posts about avoiding the prison sentence:
Al Ahram Weekly (summary from the point of view of the Ministry of Antiquities, but before the results of the appeal had been announced)
Talking Pyramids (Vincent Brown's summary of the reasons for the original judgement, looking at the evidence)
drhawass.com (a statement by Zahi Hawass on the reprieve)
CNN (an overview of the reasons for the lawsuit and the arguments made at the appeal)
Africa Online (short summary)
Articles and posts about avoiding the prison sentence:
Al Ahram Weekly (summary from the point of view of the Ministry of Antiquities, but before the results of the appeal had been announced)
Talking Pyramids (Vincent Brown's summary of the reasons for the original judgement, looking at the evidence)
drhawass.com (a statement by Zahi Hawass on the reprieve)
CNN (an overview of the reasons for the lawsuit and the arguments made at the appeal)
Africa Online (short summary)
- Luxor Court Sentences 11 People For Stealing Antiquities
Egypt Independent The Luxor Criminal Court on Tuesday sentenced in absentia six people to life imprisonment and five others to 10 years in prison for armed robbery of the antiquity storage area belonging to the German mission in...
- Ministry Of State For Antiquities Denies Hawass' Escape Rumours
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) Today, the criminal court of Agouza acquitted Minister of State for Antiquities Zahi Hawass of the charge issued for not implementing the administration court ruling to put on halt all procedures being taken to rent the cafeteria...
- Hawass Faces Criticisms About His Job, Ties To Mubarak
Washington Post (Philip Kennicott) After two months of revolution and recrimination, which has seen him in and out of power, he is madly multitasking: Struggling to preserve ancient sites from theft and the encroachment of illegal construction, while...
- Hawass And The Designer Clothing Line
Hawass again found himself under fire in the headlines, this time for selling his name to a clothes designer who launched a clothing line named after him, currently for sale in Harrods. Part of the furor was that seemed as though they had used the Egyptian...
- Zahi Hawass And The Museum Giftshop
Talking Pyramids (Vincent Brown) Vincent has written a fascinating piece about the politics surrounding the gift ship of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Here's his introduction: The new Museum gift shop that was looted during the recent revolution in...