Egypt
Al Ahram Weekly (a summary of the case for the defense)
New York Times (a good summary of the furor and a description of the line, together with one of photographs used to promote it)
Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues (Paul Barford wonders if the world has gone mad, over-reacting to the Hawass-branded clothing line)
- Memphis Storeroom Trashed?
Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues (Paul Barford) Paul Barford has posted about a photograph which has appeared on Facebook, which allegedly shows a looted storeroom in Memphis. The authorities denied that Memphis had been targeted by looters....
- Traveling Revolution Exhibition
Al Masry Al Youm News about Zahi Hawass -- a clothing line, an arrest, cash rewards for the safe return of antiquities -- changes daily. But before he was pinned for a shady real estate deal, Egypt’s minister of antiquities had been focusing on celebrating...
- Replacements For Hawass Being Appointed?
Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues (Paul Barford) Paul Barford says on his blog that the professor of archival studies at Cairo University, Dr Emad Abu Ghazi, will be the newly appointed Minister of Culture and Antiquities in Egypt, replacing...
- Tourism In Egypt
Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues (Paul Barford) Paul Barford has a small rant about the new rules re photography in the Valley of the Kings, explains why he cannot post some of the 1000s of photographs he took whilst he was in Egypt and...
- More On New 7 Wonders Dispute
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/843/eg9.htm This is just a summary of the story so far, on the Al Ahram Weekly website, again seen mainly from the Egyptian point of view, although Christian Leblanc, head of the French mission at the Ramesseum Temple in...
Egypt
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 Museum in Cairo to promote the new line, but Hawass and the team who took the photographs say that the photo shoot actually took place in the U.S. when the Tutankhamun exhibition was touring and that any of the objects handled or sat upon were replicas. The photographic team also confirms that a photograph of a model with a foot on an item was achieved with photo manipulation. He is quoted saying that all his income from the line will go to a children's cancer hospital in Cairo.
Al Ahram Weekly (a summary of the case for the defense)
New York Times (a good summary of the furor and a description of the line, together with one of photographs used to promote it)
Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues (Paul Barford wonders if the world has gone mad, over-reacting to the Hawass-branded clothing line)
- Memphis Storeroom Trashed?
Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues (Paul Barford) Paul Barford has posted about a photograph which has appeared on Facebook, which allegedly shows a looted storeroom in Memphis. The authorities denied that Memphis had been targeted by looters....
- Traveling Revolution Exhibition
Al Masry Al Youm News about Zahi Hawass -- a clothing line, an arrest, cash rewards for the safe return of antiquities -- changes daily. But before he was pinned for a shady real estate deal, Egypt’s minister of antiquities had been focusing on celebrating...
- Replacements For Hawass Being Appointed?
Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues (Paul Barford) Paul Barford says on his blog that the professor of archival studies at Cairo University, Dr Emad Abu Ghazi, will be the newly appointed Minister of Culture and Antiquities in Egypt, replacing...
- Tourism In Egypt
Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues (Paul Barford) Paul Barford has a small rant about the new rules re photography in the Valley of the Kings, explains why he cannot post some of the 1000s of photographs he took whilst he was in Egypt and...
- More On New 7 Wonders Dispute
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/843/eg9.htm This is just a summary of the story so far, on the Al Ahram Weekly website, again seen mainly from the Egyptian point of view, although Christian Leblanc, head of the French mission at the Ramesseum Temple in...