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The Rise and Fall and Rise of Zahi Hawass

The long-reigning king of Egyptian antiquities has been forced into exile — but he’s plotting a return

By Joshua Hammer

Smithsonian magazine, June 2013

“Morsi is worse than Mubarak, he doesn’t listen to the people,” Hawass told me, as his assistant brought in two cups of green tea. He is a burly man with a dominating manner and, despite his recent troubles, an air of total self-confidence. “What he did with the constitution is dictatorship. I always say give the opportunity to Muslim Brotherhood to rule. But they are not trained to rule....I think it is going to be civil war.”

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/The-Rise-and-Fall-and-Rise-of-Zahi-Hawass-208348331.html


2 posted on 10/28/2013 7:28:21 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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To: SunkenCiv

The MB are so bad for Egypt and anywhere for that matter. How can you not ship antiquities for public display and later return? Egypt desperately needs tourism and tourists or their socialist paradise will really become a hell hole.


27 posted on 10/31/2013 6:32:46 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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