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Zahi Hawass har lämnat sin post.
« skrivet: augusti 10, 2011, 05:44 »
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The second reason is that there are two crooks in the Antiquities Department, who have accused me of stealing antiquities and doing other illegal things all of the time. Their files talk about this. A third person started saying similar things, a university professor who was the Antiquities Director for almost 6 years before me, who never accomplished anything in that time. As a corrupt man, he even gave his signed permission to a rich lady from another Arabic country to take manuscripts out of Egypt! These three people encouraged young Egyptians to protest against me personally, to shout outside my office that they needed jobs. Sadly, I cannot give a job to everyone, but I did find funds to provide nearly 2000 training positions. In response to the horrible rumors that I am stealing antiquities. How could this be?! How could a man who has given his life to protecting and promoting antiquities, be accused later of stealing them?! Because of all of these things, I believe that if I stay in my position for another six months, I will never be able to protect the antiquities I love and I will never be able to work during this mess. All my life, I have been excavating, discovering, writing books and giving lectures all over the world. My work is responsible for bringing many tourists to Egypt, which helps our economy. But now I cannot do this! Therefore, I decided to resign”.
http://www.drhawass.com/blog/why-dr-hawass-resigned
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According to Egyptian blogger 3arabaway, this morning Hawass was "escorted out of the backdoor of the ministry into a cab, showered with insults and angry chants from young archeologists," an event captured on video. Unfortunately, this means that the official Zahi Hawass clothing line, started by one of the many American companies that goes through Hawass to access Egyptian relics, is probably off.
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/07/egyptians-celebrate-firing-of-the-mubarak-of-antiquities/242110/

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