比格犬好养吗When Ancient Artifacts Become Political Pawns
[1] As thousands lined up to a glimp of Nefertiti at the newly reopened Neues Muum here, another skirmish erupted in the culture wars.
[2] Egypt’s chief archaeologist, Zahi Hawwass, announced that his country wanted its queen handed back forthwith, unless Germany could prove that the 3,500-year-old bust of Akhenaten’s wife wasn’t spirited illegally out of Egypt nearly a century ago.
[3] “We’re not treasure hunters,” Mr. Hawass told Spiegel Online. “If it’s proven clearly that the work was not stolen,” he said, “there shouldn’t be any problem.”
[4] Then he said he was sure the work had been stolen.
[5] Globalization, it turns out, has only intensified, not diminished, cultural differences among nations. The force of nationalism love to exploit culture becau it’s symbolic, economically potent and couches identity politics in a legal context that tends to pit David against Goliath.
张执文[6] Mr. Hawass also recently fired a shot at France, demanding the Louvre return five fresco fragments it purchad in 2000 and 2003 from a gallery and at auction. They belong to a 3,200-year-old tomb near Luxor and had been in storage at the muum. Egypt had made the demand before, but this time suspended the Louvre’s long-term excavation at Saqqara, near Cairo, and said it would stop collaborating on Loure exhibitions.
国画牡丹图片[7] France got the message. It promid to nd the fragments back tout de suite. well什么意思
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[8] It didn’t go unnoticed in Paris, Berlin or Cairo that Mr. Hawass presd his ca about Nerfertiti and suspended the excavations by the Louvre just after his country’s culture minister, Farouk Hosny, bitterly lost a bid to become director general of the United Nation’s cultural agency, Unesco. The post went late month to a Bulgarian diplomat instead. Mr. Hosny would have been the first Arab to land the job, and Egypt’s President, Hosni Mubarak, had banked a not insignificant amount of his own prestige on the minister’s getting it.放鞭炮的危害
[9] But Jewish groups and prominent French and German intellectuals (not the Israeli government, though) campaigned against Mr. Hosny. When asked in Egypt’s Parliament last year about the prence of Israeli books in Alexandria’s library, Mr. Hosny said, “Let’s burn the books. If there are any, I will burn them mylf before you.” That prompted Elie Wiel, Claude Lanzmann and Bernard-Henri Levy in Le Monde to urge that he not be lected, also quoting Mr. Hosny as saying in 2001, “Israeli culture is an inhuman culture” bad on theft.
[10] After that Mr. Hosny told the same French newspaper that he was sorry for tho remarks and “nothing is more distant to me than racism, the negation of others and the desire to hurt Jewish culture or any other culture.”
[11] Then he failed to get the job and blamed the failure on Jewish conspiracy.
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[12] “The conspiracy was bigger than you can imagine,” he told an Egyptian weekly.
[13] In fact, what may have ultimately done Mr. Hosny in, aside from his cloness to an
old, tired, dictatorial regime, was his suspected role, as an Egyptian diplomat in 1985, in protecting the perpetrators of a terrorist attack on a crui ship, the Achille Lauro, during which a Jewish American tourist in a wheelchair was shot and pushed into the a.
[14] In any ca, days after the Unesco decision, Mr. Hawass went after France and Germany. When questioned about the timing, he insisted there was no connection, saying he had asked the French to return the artifacts two months earlier. But that was when Mr. Hosny’s campaign had already started to fall apart. Likewi, Mr. Hawass has also said that his sudden announcement, in late August, of restoration work on an Egyptian synagogue had nothing to do with Mr. Hosny’s bid. It was just as clear back then that this was an attempt to assuage growing Jewish opposition to the minister.关于元宵节的诗句佳句
[15] Over the year Egypt has occasionally made a bid for Nefertiti, When the political climate is ripe. Germans point out that Ludwig Borchardt, who discovered Nerfertiti at Tel el Amarna in 1912, had Egyptian approval to take it to Berlin. Just the other day, Iraq repeated its demand that Germany return the Gate of Ishtar from the ancient city of Babylon, excavated and shipped to Berlin before World War I.
[16] In Iraq’s ca, the government ems to be wagering that German ambivalence about the current war may help swing popular opinion here about giving back the gate, just as Saddam Husin’s regime played the repatriation card in 2002 as a tactic in negotiating with the United Nations over letting weapons inspectors into the country.
[17] For the Egyptian public, Mr. Hosny’s defeat was another condemnation of the country’s stagnant leadership. “Defeat and failure and regression will keep following this regime, who members’ policy is to stay in office forever,” wrote Mushin Radi, a Muslim Brotherhood Member of Parliament, in the daily Al-Dustour.
