New protests against the head of Egypt's SCA

[Kevininabydos]

Well, this didn't take long! All in all it seems to have fallen on deaf ears though and wasn't very well organised. Here is the short report.

Employees of the Supreme Council of Antiquities protest again, asking for the resignation of the newly appointed secretary general

Nevine El-Aref , Monday 14 Nov 2011




Under the title, “The revolution’s decisiveness at the Supreme Council of Antiquities" (SCA) a small group of the SCA’s staff protested today in front of the SCA building in Zamalek asking for the resignation of the newly appointed secretary general Mostafa Amin.
The protest comes but a month after Amin took the post. Protestors asked not only for the resignation of Amin but the SCA to be returned to being the Ministry of State for Antiquites (MSA), and the appointment of the SCA’s temporary staff according to a scheduled timetable.

Ahmed Emam, one of the protestors told Ahram Online that Amin promised to appoint all the SCA’s temporary staff but he never did. He continued that 400 employees newly appointed since the former MSA head Zahi Hawass was forced out. Most of them were administrators.

Protestors also asked for the cancellation of all projects of no immediate benefit to archaeology, as well as the dismissal of all SCA consultants and advisors who take money for no specific reason.

After almost an hour of protesting, protestors moved from the SCA building towards the Cabinet after they realised that Amin was not in the office. According to a junior employee at the SCA who requested anonymity, Amin did not return to work since the Eid holiday. Rumours are that Amin is out of the city.

source: http://english.ahram.org.eg/~/NewsConte ... me-Co.aspx

[Chocolate Eclair]

Utter shambles, but cannot wait to see the fun that will start after the elections if someone gets in that the popular front does not like... due to a sterile Police Force everyone thinks they can get away with everything Big or Small, but its a laugh watching them trying to find their way around the traffic island to democracy....

[DIANA]

Yes it all does appear utterly shambolic. Whoever occupies the position of Head of Antiquities seems to find the role an impossible one to maintain. I fear for two things here, firstly the breakdown of the care and security which surrounds the archeological sites and secondly, that we may yet see the return of the man in the hat as being the only person willing to take up the position.

[LivinginLuxor]

A case of "Come back Zahi, all is forgiven"?

[Glyphdoctor]

There are people in his former office who seem to think it is destined to happen.

[Lisak]

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!

[Who2]

From Belzoni to Marriett and Carter and now Zahi, it's been a long line of thieves or archeologists call them what you will, they are all robbers, a spade is a spade is a spade. They were thieving then and they are thieving now..Only a fool thinks otherwise.......
PS: I think tomb robbing's a profession as old as prostitution.
and that's old........

[LivinginLuxor]

I'd say 'almost as old' as prostitution must have been purely for the living!