Egypt
Art Museums Journal (Stan Parchin)
An excellent factual and no-nonsense profile of SCA General Secretary Zahi Hawass.
- On Hawass And Repatriation
The Wall Street Journal Dr. Hawass is something of a global media icon, following a series of heavily hyped TV specials and a carefully cultivated public persona. His recent History Channel series, "Chasing Mummies," depicted him as a sort of burly denim-clad...
- Egypt To Preserve Pharaonic Tombs With Closure And Replicas
Art Museum Journal (Stan Parchin) This story is two months old, but in light of the conservation of Tutankhamun's tomb I've added it. Better late than never! Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt and...
- Interview With Zahi Hawass
SCAD District (Megan Kirby) There is an inverview with Hawass on the above page. The following is an extract for the introduction. For a good summary of some of the important points made in the interview see Kate Phizackerley's blog. Hawass, the...
- Hawass Re His Career - Part 2
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/5/1.asp Second part of Zahi Hawass's piece on the Egyptian Gazette website entitled How I found my true love archaeology (Part 2) reproduced here in full because it will be replcaced tomorrow: "In1976, I became...
- Zahi Hawass: A Hat Is A Hat
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/757/profile.htm "Whatever is said about the secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) -- and a great deal is -- one thing is certain, he is never going to be accused of being a wallflower. Since being...
Egypt
Profile: Zahi Hawass
Art Museums Journal (Stan Parchin)
An excellent factual and no-nonsense profile of SCA General Secretary Zahi Hawass.
Zahi Hawass (b. 1947), a native of Damietta, Egypt, has served as his country's Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities since 2002. The award-winning Director of Excavations at the Giza Pyramids, Saqqara and Bahariya Oasis became a National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence in July 2001. One of Time magazine's Top 100 Most Influential People in 2005, the world-renowned archaeologist and Egyptologist was appointed Deputy Minister of Culture in November 2009.
Education and Teaching
Having studied law, Hawass turned his attentions to Greek and Roman archaeology at Alexandria University, where he received his bachelor's degree. With a diploma in Egyptology from the University of Cairo, the Fulbright Fellow eagerly pursued his doctorate in the same subject at the University of Pennsylvania. He earned the advanced degree in 1987.
After 1988, Dr. Hawass taught at the American University in Cairo and the University of California-Los Angeles. Involved tirelessly in the construction of 19 new museums, he currently supervises programs that train a fresh generation of Egyptians in the modern methods of systematic excavation, conservation, preservation, restoration and site management.
- On Hawass And Repatriation
The Wall Street Journal Dr. Hawass is something of a global media icon, following a series of heavily hyped TV specials and a carefully cultivated public persona. His recent History Channel series, "Chasing Mummies," depicted him as a sort of burly denim-clad...
- Egypt To Preserve Pharaonic Tombs With Closure And Replicas
Art Museum Journal (Stan Parchin) This story is two months old, but in light of the conservation of Tutankhamun's tomb I've added it. Better late than never! Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt and...
- Interview With Zahi Hawass
SCAD District (Megan Kirby) There is an inverview with Hawass on the above page. The following is an extract for the introduction. For a good summary of some of the important points made in the interview see Kate Phizackerley's blog. Hawass, the...
- Hawass Re His Career - Part 2
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/5/1.asp Second part of Zahi Hawass's piece on the Egyptian Gazette website entitled How I found my true love archaeology (Part 2) reproduced here in full because it will be replcaced tomorrow: "In1976, I became...
- Zahi Hawass: A Hat Is A Hat
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/757/profile.htm "Whatever is said about the secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) -- and a great deal is -- one thing is certain, he is never going to be accused of being a wallflower. Since being...