Comments on: Zahi Hawass and the Nationalization of the Past http://oldroads.org/blog/2009/11/zahi-hawass-and-the-nationalization-of-the-past/ interpretations of places, books, and other texts Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:38:12 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Martyn Smith http://oldroads.org/blog/2009/11/zahi-hawass-and-the-nationalization-of-the-past/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Martyn Smith Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:27:49 +0000 http://oldroads.org/blog/?p=735#comment-8 thanks for your comments! Your earlier note about adding a comments section helped spur me to switch over to the Wordpress format, allowing for the comment section. thanks for your comments! Your earlier note about adding a comments section helped spur me to switch over to the Wordpress format, allowing for the comment section.

]]> By: Dar http://oldroads.org/blog/2009/11/zahi-hawass-and-the-nationalization-of-the-past/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Dar Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:16:16 +0000 http://oldroads.org/blog/?p=735#comment-6 I'll tell you Mr.Smith, countless Egyptians share your view of Dr. Hawass. I know my own mother can't stand him,. precisely because of his over-blown pseudo-flag-waving. I still take great delight in the embarrassment he suffered a few years back (I don't know if you recall this incident) when he did a tv special about uncovering a tomb live, only to be later revealed that the whole thing was fake. I also agree about the obsession with connecting the past and present. It's sad that this "racial-nationalism", born in Europe and largely dead there as a result of WWII (except maybe in the Balkans), has since been transplanted in many parts of the Third World, including the Middle East. A quick look through any Wikipedia article on some Middle Eastern issue, reveals this (try to look up any entry on some medieval Muslim scientist, and see the Persian- vs. Arab- Nationalists argue). I suspect this will end with more development, since a developed society hasn't as much desperate need to find glory in the past rather than in the present (kind of like how Italians today aren't as obsessed about racial past gloeirs as tehy were a century ago). ps: thank you for adding the comments section. I’ll tell you Mr.Smith, countless Egyptians share your view of Dr. Hawass. I know my own mother can’t stand him,. precisely because of his over-blown pseudo-flag-waving.

I still take great delight in the embarrassment he suffered a few years back (I don’t know if you recall this incident) when he did a tv special about uncovering a tomb live, only to be later revealed that the whole thing was fake.

I also agree about the obsession with connecting the past and present. It’s sad that this “racial-nationalism”, born in Europe and largely dead there as a result of WWII (except maybe in the Balkans), has since been transplanted in many parts of the Third World, including the Middle East.

A quick look through any Wikipedia article on some Middle Eastern issue, reveals this (try to look up any entry on some medieval Muslim scientist, and see the Persian- vs. Arab- Nationalists argue).

I suspect this will end with more development, since a developed society hasn’t as much desperate need to find glory in the past rather than in the present (kind of like how Italians today aren’t as obsessed about racial past gloeirs as tehy were a century ago).

ps: thank you for adding the comments section.

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