Egypt
Washington Post (Philip Kennicott)
- Catching Up With Zahi Hawass
Globalpost (Deena Adel) For years the renowned Egyptian archeologist Zahi Hawass earned worldwide fame bringing the country’s treasures to a global audience, unearthing mummies on his very own reality show, launching a clothing line and eventually becoming...
- 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...
- Egypt’s Chief Archaeologist Defends His Rights (and Wrongs)
Biblical Archaeological Review (Hershel Shanks) On Sunday, January 16, I interviewed Zahi Hawass in his office in Zamalek, the elegant Cairene island in the Nile and home of the Gezira Sports Club, from which Hawass commanded an army of 32,000 employees...
- More Re Reappointment Of Hawass
Also see yesterday's posts here and here. New York Times (Katie Taylor) Zahi Hawass, who resigned as Egypt’s minister of antiquities less than a month ago under criticism for his close ties to former President Hosni Mubarak, was reappointed to...
- Pride Cometh Before A Fall
Al Ahram Weekly (Jill Kamil) Apologies that this is so out of date (6th March), but it may be useful to anyone who missed it. Zahi Hawass, the international face of Egypt's archaeology for some 10 years, has admitted that he was no longer able to...
Egypt
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 working just as frantically to preserve his power base in a wildly shifting political landscape.
“I am not from the old regime,” Hawass says.
On March 3, with angry young archaeologists calling for his head, Hawass resigned from the top ministerial position given to him by now-deposed president Hosni Mubarak. That job not only made him powerful in Egypt, it also gave him sway over the careers of international archaeologists who work in this land of pyramids, temples, churches and mosques. But 27 days later, Hawass was put back in charge, because, he argues, no one else can do the job.
His position is far from secure. On Sunday, a criminal court convicted him for ignoring an earlier civil judgment brought against his ministry in a case involving concession contracts at the Egyptian Museum. It is likely only the first step in a protracted legal battle, and the sentence — a year in jail, loss of his post and a fine — hasn’t been enforced.
The ugly web of controversy in which he is embroiled, however, goes well beyond this latest contretemps, which Hawass describes as no more than a misunderstanding.
- Catching Up With Zahi Hawass
Globalpost (Deena Adel) For years the renowned Egyptian archeologist Zahi Hawass earned worldwide fame bringing the country’s treasures to a global audience, unearthing mummies on his very own reality show, launching a clothing line and eventually becoming...
- 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...
- Egypt’s Chief Archaeologist Defends His Rights (and Wrongs)
Biblical Archaeological Review (Hershel Shanks) On Sunday, January 16, I interviewed Zahi Hawass in his office in Zamalek, the elegant Cairene island in the Nile and home of the Gezira Sports Club, from which Hawass commanded an army of 32,000 employees...
- More Re Reappointment Of Hawass
Also see yesterday's posts here and here. New York Times (Katie Taylor) Zahi Hawass, who resigned as Egypt’s minister of antiquities less than a month ago under criticism for his close ties to former President Hosni Mubarak, was reappointed to...
- Pride Cometh Before A Fall
Al Ahram Weekly (Jill Kamil) Apologies that this is so out of date (6th March), but it may be useful to anyone who missed it. Zahi Hawass, the international face of Egypt's archaeology for some 10 years, has admitted that he was no longer able to...