Egyptology News (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
drhawass.com With photo. The Austrian Archaeological mission from the Austrian Archaeological Centre in Egypt unearthed a fragment of a cuneiform seal impression dating to the last decades of the Babylonian Kingdom. Culture Minister Farouk Hosni made the announcement today, adding that the seal impression was found inside a pit that cuts into layers of the Late Period in Tel El-Daba, an archaeological...
GayandRight (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Despite a peace treaty, you still see things like this... A gigantic storm has been brewing among Egyptian intellectuals ever since Egyptian poetess Iman Mersal permitted one of her books to be published in Hebrew ("An Alternative Geography," translated by Sasson Somekh, Hakibbutz Hameuhad publishing house). How, they demand, could any Egyptian writer cross the lines, defy the writers association's...
Heritage Key blogs (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Austrian archaeologists have unearthed the oldest cuneiform seal inscription fragment ever found in Egypt. The piece dates to the Old Babylonian reign of King Hammurabi, who brought the world its first code of law , between 1792 - 1750 BC. Egypt's culture minister Farouk Hosni announced the discovery today, made by the Austrian Archaeological Mission in a pit at Tel El-Daba, modern name of ancient...
Egyptology News (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
asharq alawsat (Zahi Hawass) There is a ridiculous story being circulated by malicious and biased media organs that claim that a group of Jews had informed UNESCO that the floor of the Maimonides synagogue in the ancient Al-Jamaliyah district of Old Cairo is covered with garbage. This group of Jews falsely claimed that Egypt does not look after its Jewish artifacts, and said that work to restore the...
PaleoJudaica.com (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
SPEAKING OF MAIMONIDES, Dr. Zahi Hawass writs in Asharq Alawsat about: A Visit to the Maimonides Synagogue 13/11/2009 By Dr. Zahi Hawass Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat- There is a ridiculous story being circulated by malicious and biased media organs that claim that a group of Jews had informed UNESCO that the floor of the Maimonides synagogue in the ancient Al-Jamaliyah district of Old Cairo is covered with...
The Roar - the news that matters (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
India is the guest of honour at the 33rd Cairo International Film Festival (CIFF), which opened here with the screening of John Abraham-Katrina Kaif starrer Hindi film New York. The festival was jointly inaugurated by the Egyptian Minister of Culture, H E Farouk Hosni and Indian Secretary of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Raghu Menon, [...]
Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Libya has officially confirmed it stops its collaboration with UNESCO in the wake of the election of Bulgarian Irina Bokova as Director General of the UN cultural organization. Irina Bokova, 57, defeated Egyptian Culture Minister Farouk Hosny after a suspenseful and drawn-out race, sealing victory in the fifth round of balloting at the organization's Paris headquarters on September 22. The appointment...
The Sofia Echo (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
Washington Times commentary looks forward to Bokova's confirmation on October 15 and the final rejection of rival Farouk Hosni's "hateful and divisive rhetoric".
Bulgaria Gazette (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
Libya has threatened to stop its collaboration with UNESCO if the Bulgarian Irina Bokova becomes Director General of the UN cultural organization. Irina Bokova, 57, defeated Egyptian Culture Minister Farouk Hosny after a suspenseful and drawn-out ...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
Cairo -Egyptian Minister of Culture Farouk Hosny said Thursday that the decision to suspend ties with the Louvre museum had nothing to do with his failed bid for the UNESCO top job last month. Egypt announced Wednesday that it was suspending its ties...
Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
The appointment of Bulgarian Irina Bokova as UNESCO Director General will be officially confirmed at a general conference to run from October 6 till October 23. Irina Bokova, 57, defeated Egyptian Culture Minister Farouk Hosny after a suspenseful and drawn-out race, sealing victory in the fifth round of balloting at the organization's Paris headquarters on September 22. There were originally nine applicants...
Winds Of Jihad (Free subscription) | 02/10/2009
UNESCO bid reveals rampant Egyptian antisemitism You can put a monkey in a suit and you can put lipstick on a pig, but you can’t cure a Muselman of his obsessive Jew-hatred Egypt has a peace...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 02/10/2009
When a government minister politely kidnaps you for a spell of full-on self-promotion, you tend to take an interest in his subsequent career. Last January, at the Cairo Book Fair, a small party of British visitors was suddenly whisked into the presence of Farouk Hosny – or should I say "Minister of Culture, the artist Farouk Hosny". Always close to President Mubarak, this suave survivor...
GayandRight (Free subscription) | 01/10/2009
Yet another International Jewish Conspiracy..... For days after Egypt’s culture minister, Farouk Hosny, failed in his bid to lead the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Egyptian newspapers and government officials presented the defeat as a sign of Western prejudice against Islam and the Arab world, the product of an international Jewish conspiracy. “America,...
Middle East Analysis (Free subscription) | 01/10/2009
Farouk Hosny has set out to destroy Israeli culture. Of course, this is contrary to the spirit of the Israel-Egypt peace treaty, if not the letter, but the Israeli government has been silent on this point. Hosny lost a bid to run UNESCO, because he threatened to burn all the Israeli books in the Alexandria library. Even the UN did not like the idea of a book burner as culture Czar. Israel and Egypt...
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