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News 19 June 2006
Egypt's Technology Minister Announces
New Investment Opportunities for American Businesses
On Monday, June 19, 2006 Egypt's Minister of Communications and Information
Technology, Dr. Tarek Kamel, will announce new investment opportunities
for American businesses at a reception hosted by the Northern Virginia Technology
Council and several other organizations.
Dr. Kamel is visiting this region to meet with U.S. business leaders to
inform them about Egypt's recent developments in the ICT sector and announce
a number of large foreign investment opportunities.
At a reception Monday evening, Paul Laudicina, the Vice President and Managing
Director of A.T. Kearney's Global Business Policy Council, will announce
the findings of a special report which they conducted on doing business
in Egypt. Additionally, Mark McLaughlin, Executive Vice President for VeriSign,
will sign an agreement with the Minister to provide a name server for Egypt.
The Minister will be accompanied by a delegation of prominent technology
leaders from Cairo, including the leadership of EITESAL (Egypt's technology
association).
Egypt's leading technology companies currently demonstrate globally competitive
corporate capabilities in formation systems; software development design,
quality assurance, and maintenance; IP-based contact centers, fax servers,
SMS applications, unified communication solutions, Internet/Intranet applications;
and single-language localization services in Arabic. Egypt's leading ICT
companies are currently doing business around the world and are both service
providers and strategic partners with the world's leading ICT companies.
Companies including Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, Cisco Systems, Alcatel, and
Intel are all significantly investing in Egypt demonstrating their confidence
in the Egyptian market.
For its foreign investors, Egypt has built a state-of-the-art technology
park, the Smart Village and instituted Investment Law 8, where foreign companies
are eligible for tax exemptions of up to 10 years, unrestricted ownership
and unlimited profit repatriation. These incentives have enabled Egypt to
attract global players such as Oracle to set up the first MENA customer
care center and Intel has built its 4th worldwide Platform Definition Center.
The Minister's reception is being hosted Monday, June 19, from 6pm to 8pm
at the Hilton McLean by the Northern Virginia Technology Council in partnership
with the Fairfax County Economic Development Authority, the Greater Washington
Initiative, the Information Technology Association of America, the National-US
Arab Chamber of Commerce, and the US-Egypt Friendship Society.
ENI’s investment vital to Egypt’s
development
Development of Egypt's natural gas industry, such as investments by Italian
company ENI, will be vital for the future of the North African country's
economy, Egyptian energy sector expert Magdi Sobhy said.
Sobhy, said that "Egypt is not a 'giant' of the energy sector, but
oil and gas can without doubt represent the key element for the country's
development."
He further referred to the role which foreign investors play in Egypt's
economic growth, in particular energy giant ENI, which is the main international
energy operator in the country.
This weekend ENI's CEO, Paolo Scaroni, will be in Egypt to celebrate the
50th anniversary of ENI's first oil extraction in the country.
ENI was the first foreign energy company to operate in Egypt in 1954 and
in 2004 its share of the oil and natural gas production in Egypt averaged
about 200,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day.
"The long-term presence of important foreign companies has also been
crucial to the development of sector-knowledge, technical skills and to
the training of specialised personnell, and today Egyptian technicians are
among the most seeked," added Sobhy.
ENI was among the 'pioneers' of soil exploration in Egypt and, since the
fifties, it has extended its operations to the field of fuels production,
natural gas liquefaction and crude oil refinement, as well as the search
of new oilfields.
ENI started its business in Egypt thanks to an agreement on soil exploration
negotiated in the early fifties by former ENI chairman Enrico Mattei and
former Egyptian president Gamal Abd el-Nasser.
The deal represented a total novelty in the oil industry, providing that,
should any oilfields be found by ENI, the Egyptian government would have
taken part in their management and development.
The first successful on-shore oilwell drilling was in Bala'im, Suez Gulf,
in 1955. Subsequently, ENI was the first foreign company to set up a joint-venture
with state-owned Egyptian General Petroleum Co. to start off-shore exploration
in Egypt in 1961. The collaboration between ENI and the Egyptian national
company in the exploration field has continued until present.
A crucial event in ENI's expansion in Egypt was the discovery of the first
Egyptian natural gas well in Abu Madi - in the Nile delta - in 1967, which
marked the beginning of a new era.
ENI has had positive relations with president Hosni Mubarak's government
since he first ascended to presidency in October 1981. Mubarak granted ENI
permission to carry out soil exploration in a number of areas, including
Port Said - an harbour on the western side of teh Suez channel - where Egypt's
main gasfield was found
The Pharaohs' outspoken defender
kicks up a dust storm
Zahi Hawass, the man selected to preserve Egypt's magnificent monuments,
has never been timid about protecting his nation's heritage.
At a preview of a King Tut display at Chicago's Field Museum last month,
Hawass, whose critics call him "the Show-Biz Pharaoh," a "media
whore" and "part P.T. Barnum, part Indiana Jones," asked
museum officials to remove one of the exhibition's corporate sponsors after
learning its chief executive owned a 2,600-year-old Egyptian coffin. "Antiquities
should be in museums, not in people's homes," he told those in attendance,
referring to John W. Rowe, of Exelon, a Chicago energy company. Rowe immediately
offered to send the sarcophagus to the museum on indefinite loan.
Also last month, Hawass gave St. Louis Art Museum director Brent Benjamin
a May 15 deadline to return a 3,200-old funerary mask that Hawass says was
illegally taken in the early 1990s from a storage facility near the site
of its excavation. In April, he fired off a letter to New York Mayor Michael
Bloomberg, asking him to return a 71-foot-high Egyptian obelisk in Central
Park if he didn't start taking care of it. The pillar, which is in poor
condition because of neglect, has been in the park since 1881 -- a gift
from the Egyptian government in return for American aid in constructing
the Suez Canal. Bloomberg has yet to reply, Hawass says.
Since Hawass became director of Egypt's 34,000-member Supreme Council of
Antiquities in 2002, many Egyptologists agree that the feisty 59-year-old
archaeologist has done more than anyone yet to bring Egyptian civilization
to the world stage, appearing on cable television, writing newspaper articles,
traveling the world giving lectures and launching exhibits of Egyptian treasures.
Last month, Time magazine named him as one of the planet's "100 most
influential people."
"He is the leader of an enormous organization that is faced with many
challenges," says Willeke Wendrich, associate professor of Egyptian
archaeology at UCLA. "He has taken significant steps to safeguard (Egypt's)
cultural heritage."
Hawass is one of the Arab world's most recognized faces. Whether explaining
ancient history on the Discovery or History channels or dispelling theories
that aliens built the pyramids, the stodgy, silver-haired Hawass has become
a familiar figure clad in blue jeans, blue work shirt and Indiana Jones-style
hat. A National Geographic explorer-in-residence, he has several discoveries
under his belt, including a cemetery for pyramid workmen at Giza and the
Valley of the Golden Mummies in Bahariya.
When Hawass dined last year in Los Angeles with fellow Egyptian Omar Sharif
-- the star of such epic films as "Lawrence of Arabia" and "Dr.
Zhivago" -- a beautiful woman approached their table. Sharif, expecting
her to ask for an autograph, rose to greet her. But the woman strode right
past him to question Hawass about Egyptian antiquities, according to a friend
of both men, who asked not to be named for fear of angering Sharif.
"Zahi was born to be a star," says Nasser Kamel, chairman of Egypt's
State Information Service. "He is very flashy."
Hawass' critics, however, say his celebrity has turned him into an autocrat
who rules the Supreme Council as if it were his personal fiefdom.
Last year, he allowed the mummy of King Tutankhamen to be removed from its
tomb for the first time in 80 years to learn how the boy king died, using
state-of-the-art scanning equipment. Computer images determined Tut's appearance.
Critics decried the event as more of a media circus than science, and Hawass
later docked the pay of a Supreme Council member who criticized the re-creation
of Tut's face, disputing the computer image's Caucasian look.
Hawass has also barred foreign scientists who break his rules. In 2003,
he banned English archaeologist Joann Fletcher from Egypt after she announced
on the Discovery Channel -- without consulting him -- that a previously
discovered mummy was Queen Nefertiti, a hypothesis few scholars took seriously.
"Nobody crosses Zahi Hawass and gets away with it," the Sunday
Times Magazine in London wrote last year.
As Hawass describes it, his zeal is necessary to help modern Egyptians value
their heritage. His goal, he says, is for them to "look at the pyramids
as a living soul and help me take care of it and protect it."
Hawass, who has a doctorate degree in Egyptology from the University of
Pennsylvania, is currently overseeing the construction of more than a dozen
museums across Egypt, including what he calls "the world's biggest
museum," near the Giza pyramids, that will house all of King Tut's
artifacts and 60 percent of objects now found in Cairo's renowned Egyptian
Museum. He is pressuring the Egyptian parliament this year to increase the
penalty for stealing antiquities from five years to 25 years in prison.
He is campaigning to stem the damage of an encroaching population on the
nation's archaeological sites, insisting on zoning laws to curb development.
The famous pyramids outside Cairo at Giza -- the largest of which is the
sole survivor of the Seven Wonders of the World -- now overlook a golf course
on one side and a KFC outlet on the other.
"All over Egypt, there are modern towns built over antiquities,"
says Hawass.
Most recently, Hawass publicly objected to a fatwa, or religious edict,
issued by Ali Gomaa, Cairo's Grand Mufti -- the nation's highest official
of Islamic law. In April, Ali Gomaa forbade the production and display of
ancient sculptures, causing some Egyptians to fear Islamic militants would
use the ruling to destroy statues depicting the pharaohs. In interviews
last month with visiting U.S. editors, both Hawass and the Grand Mufti said
they were now on the same page. "Even though we know statues are forbidden,
we would never destroy our pharaonic monuments," says Ali Gomaa.
And even as he has challenged American private collections and museums,
Hawass has made Egyptian artifacts more accessible to Americans by successfully
lobbying the Egyptian parliament to allow a King Tut exhibit of some 120
objects to tour four U.S. cities between 2005 and 2007. The lawmakers reversed
a policy set in the 1980s that confined most of the objects to Egypt, after
a scorpion atop a statue of the goddess Selket broke during an international
tour in the 1970s. "King Tut and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs"
has already been shown in Los Angeles and Fort Lauderdale and began late
last month in Chicago and will open in Philadelphia in February.
Hawass has also asked five foreign museums to return Egyptian artifacts.
He has singled out: the Rosetta Stone, the tablet in the British Museum
that was key to deciphering hieroglyphs; a bust of Queen Nefertiti at the
Egyptian Museum in Berlin, which he says Adolf Hitler stopped from being
returned to Egypt; a bust of Prince Ankhhaf in the Boston Museum of Fine
Arts; a Zodiac taken from a ceiling at Dendera Temple that is in the Louvre
in Paris; and a statue of Hemiunnu, the architect of the Great Pyramid,
in the Roemer-Pelizaeus Museum in Hildesheim, Germany.
"I am not asking for everything to come back," says Hawass. "I
am asking museums not to buy stolen goods at auctions in San Francisco,
London and elsewhere. And if they are bought, I'm asking them to send them
back."
But most of his wrath these says is saved for St. Louis Art Museum director
Benjamin, who he calls "crazy" for not returning a funerary mask
after a May 15 deadline. In his defense, Benjamin says Hawass hasn't offered
enough proof to convince him that the object the museum bought for $499,000
in 1998 from a Swiss art dealer was stolen. Hawass says he will not only
sue Benjamin, but contact the U.S. State Department and the international
police organization, Interpol.
"I will," he says, "make his life miserable."
Restoration of Rosetta
The Supreme Council of Antiquities has begun a comprehensive project to
restore the mosques , houses and bathhouses of Rosetta and transform the
town into an open museum. Rosetta was known as “Rhyt” ( meaning
the common people) in pharaonic Egypt, “Rakhit” in Coptic ,
“ Rashid” in Arabic and was Europeanized to “ Rosetta.”
The ancient buildings include the Rosetta gate, the Abu Shahin mill , the
Azuz Bathhouse and several fine houses. The date back to the Mamluk period
and the beginning of the Ottoman period.
Meanwhile the Rosetta National Museum and the local centre for traditional
handmade crafts will be undergoing renovations. The museum houses a replica
of the Rosetta stone, the weapons used to defend Rosetta from occupation
are displayes as well as pottery from the Islamic era.
Key archaeological finds in Sinai
An archaeological mission belonging to the Supreme Council of Antiquities
(SCA) announced the discovery of 36 tombs dating back to the pre-history
era.
Dr. Zahi Hawwas, Secretary-General of SCA said that the mission unearthed
the tombs during an archaeological survey in Ain Hadra and Abul Rdeis, central
Sinai.
Queen’s mummy arrives in Cairo
The mummy of Queen Hatshepsut, which was brought from Luxor under the supervision
of a committee from the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), was discovered
in the Valley of Kings at Luxor. The queen's mummy will be transferred to
the Egyptian Museum in down- town Cairo .
SCA to take legal action to retrieve mask
Zahi Hawwas, the Secretary General of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities
(SCA), said a deadline for a US museum' to turn over an ancient mask in
its collection ended Tuesday16/5/2006.
The mask was stolen and smuggled illegally out of the country. At a press
conference, Hawwas said Egypt's Attorney General office is to take legal
action against the St. Louis Art Museum after having given the museum an
ultimatum to hand over the 19th dynasty (1307-1196 BC) mask of ka-nefer-nefer.
Egypt will also seek the Interpol's aid to help restore the mummy mask he
added.
Egyptologist Zakaria Goneim excavated the mask in the Saqqara area some
25 Kilometers (16 miles) south of Cairo in 1952 and registered the artifact.
It depicts a young woman with inlaid glass eyes and a gold- coated face
wearing a wig and holding a wooden amulet in each hand.
Tutankhamen Antiquities Exhibition in US harvest $20M
An exhibition for Tutankhamen monuments was held in the US city of Chicago
on May 21, after a tour by the exhibition of a number of European and American
cities including the Swiss city of Basel and the German city of Bonn.
The exhibition, which also moved to Los Angeles and Colorado as part of
a two-year tour ending late next year, would achieve returns estimated at
$ 20 million.
Hawwas said the exhibition returns will be used to renovate Egypt's monuments
and establish museums.
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