Egypt from the Air is part of the Wings over the Pyramids: Will Egypt's Treasure Survive exhibit designed and curated by Museum Studies graduate students at San Francisco State University, under the guidance of Professor Linda Ellis.

This blog attempts to capture, document, and make accessible some of the hundreds of thousands of videos, articles and photographs relating to the dramatic events that have swept across Egypt since early 2011.

Wings over the Pyramids opens April 4th, 2011.

3/31/11

Dr Zahi Hawass

Dr. Zahi Hawass is the current Secretary General of The Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt.  He stepped down from this position because of his close ties to the Mubarak regime; however, he returned to the position less than a month later.

As a larger than life personality, he is never far from controversy.

Here he is in 2009 discussing his role in managing the tourist crowds, his relationship to the pyramids, and copy-righting the pyramids.



In 2007 he appeared on Al Jazeera to discuss Egypt's policy on stolen artifacts.


More recently, he was interviewed by CNN on the telephone describing what was looted and destroyed in the Cairo Museum during the protests.


As it turns out, Dr. Hawass now admits that looting and thievery is more widespread and more of a serious problem than he originally stated.

Dr. Hawass has posted on his blog a list of sites and antiquities that are in danger of being damaged.
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