{"id":1741,"date":"2011-07-19T11:44:58","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T01:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/?p=1741"},"modified":"2011-07-19T11:44:58","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T01:44:58","slug":"hawass-fired-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/2011\/07\/hawass-fired-again-1741.html","title":{"rendered":"Hawass Fired (again)"},"content":{"rendered":"

He had it good for a very long time.\u00a0 He established himself as the Indiana Jones of Egypt. He had TV shows that screened globally. He dominated and controlled the pyramids and anything else ancient in Egypt. He (seemingly) had alternative authors at his mercy – love me or no access. And he was about to have his own range of clothing:
\nhttp:\/\/www.artzulu.com\/project\/zahi-hawass<\/a><\/p>\n

With all the upheavals in Egypt recently, it has been a tumultuous period for Zahi Hawass. He was arrested, resigned<\/a>, and re-appointed. Now, seen as part of the Old Guard<\/em>, he is finally gone for good.<\/p>\n

[Zahi Hawass] was fired<\/a> Sunday after months of pressure from critics who attacked his credibility and accused him of having been too close to the regime of ousted President Hosni Mubarak.<\/p>\n

Zahi Hawass, long chided as publicity loving and short on scientific knowledge, lost his job along with about a dozen other ministers in a Cabinet reshuffle meant to ease pressure from protesters seeking to purge remnants of Mubarak’s regime.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Presumably his successor, Abdel-Fattah el-Banna, will have a different approach. But don’t expect new projects and access this year, this is certainly a job for cautious types. Hall of Records before Dec 2012? I guess it is possible!<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/strong><\/span> Seems as though was not a great choice. Read about him<\/a> at Norah Shalaby’s blog. And now he has had his appointment cancelled<\/a>, after protests by archaeologists and archaeologists and Ministry of State for Antiquities employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

He had it good for a very long time.\u00a0 He established himself as the Indiana Jones of Egypt. He had TV shows that screened globally. He dominated and controlled the pyramids and anything else ancient in Egypt. He (seemingly) had alternative authors at his mercy – love me or no access. And he was about to have his own range of clothing:
\nhttp:\/\/www.artzulu.com\/project\/zahi-hawass
\nWith all the upheavals in Egypt recently, it has been a tumultuous period for Zahi Hawass. He was arrested, resigned, and re-appointed. Now, seen as part of the Old Guard, he is finally gone for good.
\n[Zahi Hawass] was fired Sunday after months of pressure from critics who attacked his credibility and accused him of having been too close to the regime of ousted President Hosni Mubarak.
\nZahi Hawass, long chided as publicity loving and short on scientific knowledge, lost his job along with about a dozen other ministers in a …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[316,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archaeology","category-pyramids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1741"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1743,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions\/1743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}