Inside the Office of Zahi Hawass
Egyptian archeologist Zahi Hawass, the secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, is part cultural guardian, part Indiana Jones. No television program remotely concerned with the ancient world can resist him. In a fact piece in the November 16 issue of The New Yorker, Ian Parker excavates the man, the myth, the stetson.
“Hawass’s task—in effect to Egyptianize Egyptology by means of a personality cult—is not an easy one,” writes Parker, before going on to demonstrate the complicated mix of archeology, show business, and politics that occurs daily at Hawass’s office in downtown Cairo.
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