Monday 31 January 2011

Mubarak makes Hawass state minister for antiquities

President Hosni Mubarak named a new government today. But the lineup dominated by regime stalwarts was greeted with scorn by protesters camped out for the fourth day in the capital's central Tahrir, of Liberation, Square. Egypt's most famous archaeologist, Zahi Hawass, was named state minister for antiquities, a new post.

Read more: The Independent

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