Egypt
- Minister Requests Burnt Ndp Building Merge With Museum
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) Minister of State for Antiquities Mohamed Ibrahim submitted an official request on Tuesday to Prime Minister Kamal El-Ganzouri asking that he hand over the land which the dissolved National Democratic Party (NDP) building...
- Heritage At What Cost?
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El Aref) Almost two months since he took on Egypt's antiquities portfolio, Minister of State for Antiquities Mohamed Ibrahim tells Nevine El-Aref about his plans to develop and preserve Egypt's heritage -- including upping...
- Amin Supports Re-establishment Of The Ministry For Antiquities
Ahram Online (Nevine El Aref) In a statement issued by the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), of which Ahram Online has received a copy, SCA’s secretary general Mostafa Amin denies any statements being spread on Facebook and Twitter that he is against...
- Another Call For Egypt's Pm To Save Antiquities
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) An official letter, signed by top officials and legal consultants in the ministry of state for antiquities affairs, call for the Egypt’s PM Essam Sharaf to appoint a minister of antiquities immediately. Three weeks following...
- Thieves Strike The Khedive Tawfiq Mausoleum
This is another sad article on a theft in Egypt. This time it is Khedive Tawfiq Mausoleum which has been the victim of theft of two elaborately embroidered pieces of cloth that were hanging in the mausoleum. The Kiswa as they are known were behind thick...
Egypt
Kaaba Kiswa to be handed over to Egypt's antiquities ministry
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref)
With photos.
With photos.
Three months after the theft of two pieces of a 19th-century embroidered Al-Kaaba Kiswa (the Kaaba cover) from the mausoleum of Khedive Tawfik in Cairo's eastern cemetery, the Ministry of Religious Endowments (Awkaf) decided to hand the other exhibited pieces over to the Ministry of State for Antiquities.
These pieces are embroidered with calligraphy in gold and silver thread, similar to those that were traditionally sent by the Egyptian monarchy to cover the Kaaba in Saudi Arabia. They currently hang on the walls of the mausoleum.
Antiquities State Minister Mohamed Ibrahim told Ahram Online that although these pieces were not registered on Egypt’s list of antiquities, the antiquities ministry had agreed to receive them, per the request of Religious Endowments Minister Mohamed El-Qousi.
- Minister Requests Burnt Ndp Building Merge With Museum
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) Minister of State for Antiquities Mohamed Ibrahim submitted an official request on Tuesday to Prime Minister Kamal El-Ganzouri asking that he hand over the land which the dissolved National Democratic Party (NDP) building...
- Heritage At What Cost?
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El Aref) Almost two months since he took on Egypt's antiquities portfolio, Minister of State for Antiquities Mohamed Ibrahim tells Nevine El-Aref about his plans to develop and preserve Egypt's heritage -- including upping...
- Amin Supports Re-establishment Of The Ministry For Antiquities
Ahram Online (Nevine El Aref) In a statement issued by the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), of which Ahram Online has received a copy, SCA’s secretary general Mostafa Amin denies any statements being spread on Facebook and Twitter that he is against...
- Another Call For Egypt's Pm To Save Antiquities
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) An official letter, signed by top officials and legal consultants in the ministry of state for antiquities affairs, call for the Egypt’s PM Essam Sharaf to appoint a minister of antiquities immediately. Three weeks following...
- Thieves Strike The Khedive Tawfiq Mausoleum
This is another sad article on a theft in Egypt. This time it is Khedive Tawfiq Mausoleum which has been the victim of theft of two elaborately embroidered pieces of cloth that were hanging in the mausoleum. The Kiswa as they are known were behind thick...