Egypt
- Hawass Dig Days - Taking Credit For The Nubian Rescue
Al Ahram Weekly (Zahi Hawass) This account appears to be somewhat jumbled, but I think that this is mainly because it lacks any direct reference to the location of the story to which it refers. Hawass appears to be saying that the respected Egyptologist...
- Farouk Hosni Nominated As Unesco Director
Daily News Egypt The Egyptian government announced Monday that it was nominating Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni as a candidate for the position of director general of the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco). There...
- Rosetta Stone First Translated By Mediaeval Arabic Scholars
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/770/he2.htm "Since 1822 it had been thought that Champollion was the first person to break the hieroglyphic code, but a recent analysis made by an Egyptian Egyptologist based in London, Okasha El-Dali, on some mediaeval...
- More On Medieval Arab Scholars Re Cleopatra
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20041213/cleopatra.html I posted about this on November 9th, when Radio Netherlands published an article on the subject at http://www2.rnw.nl/rnw/en/features/science/10631355. Okasha el Daly's work identified...
- Quest Still On For Many Treasures Of Egypt
http://www.jsonline.com/onwisconsin/arts/apr04/222021.asp "Egyptologist Ashraf Okasha traveled with "The Quest for Immortality: Treasures of Ancient Egypt" from Cairo to the Milwaukee Public Museum and has stayed in town for several weeks as a representative...
Egypt
Sad News: Tharwat Okasha, a founder of Egypt’s culture institutions dies
Ahram Online
Writer, translator and minister of culture during the Nasserite era, Tharwat Okasha, who is referred to as the founder of Egypt’s cultural institutions, died on Monday 27 February in Cairo. He was 91.
Tharwat Okasha (1921 – 2012) was an army officer involved in the Free Officers Movement, along with former president Nasser and his comrades, which toppled King Farouk of Egypt from his crown in what is known as the July Revolution of 1952.
As a child of an aristocratic family, Okasha received a good education, read books in foreign languages, and learned music very early on in his home. This background made him the most cultured and enlightened officer among his group of army officers.
The intelligent young man, who was known for his rich, ample knowledge, was appointed minister of culture in the late 1950s by President Nasser.
Okasha held the position twice from 1958 to 1962 and, again, from 1966 to 1970. The two terms made him the most prominent minister of culture in Egypt’s modern history.
Okasha received his PhD in literature from Sorbonne in the 1960’s and worked as visiting scholar at the College De France.
- Hawass Dig Days - Taking Credit For The Nubian Rescue
Al Ahram Weekly (Zahi Hawass) This account appears to be somewhat jumbled, but I think that this is mainly because it lacks any direct reference to the location of the story to which it refers. Hawass appears to be saying that the respected Egyptologist...
- Farouk Hosni Nominated As Unesco Director
Daily News Egypt The Egyptian government announced Monday that it was nominating Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni as a candidate for the position of director general of the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco). There...
- Rosetta Stone First Translated By Mediaeval Arabic Scholars
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/770/he2.htm "Since 1822 it had been thought that Champollion was the first person to break the hieroglyphic code, but a recent analysis made by an Egyptian Egyptologist based in London, Okasha El-Dali, on some mediaeval...
- More On Medieval Arab Scholars Re Cleopatra
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20041213/cleopatra.html I posted about this on November 9th, when Radio Netherlands published an article on the subject at http://www2.rnw.nl/rnw/en/features/science/10631355. Okasha el Daly's work identified...
- Quest Still On For Many Treasures Of Egypt
http://www.jsonline.com/onwisconsin/arts/apr04/222021.asp "Egyptologist Ashraf Okasha traveled with "The Quest for Immortality: Treasures of Ancient Egypt" from Cairo to the Milwaukee Public Museum and has stayed in town for several weeks as a representative...