More on Zahi Hawass

ZAHI HAWASS is gone (at least for now) and a Jerusalem Post columnist suggests we should be glad to see him go: Terra Incognita: Egypt’s other Sphinx: Zahi Hawass, by Seth J. Frantzman:

The news that Zahi Hawass was recently swept aside from his post in a cabinet reshuffle in Cairo, should be welcomed. There was always something about Hawass that seemed not quite right. Besides his anti-Semitic comments, it was his constant presence. He was always there – in every video, television report, newspaper article, every time Egyptian archeology was mentioned. As Secretary General of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities, and later as the first Minister of Antiquities, he has spent a decade as the highest government bureaucrat responsible for Egypt’s archeological heritage.

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