¶ We have been thinking about Zahi Hawass lately. He has been Egypt’s peppery and grandstand-prone minister of antiquities for some time now — meaning, during the Mubarak régime — and we’re not surprised to see that he remains tenaciously in office. (What we didn’t know is that he has licensed a line of clothing that features his ageing Indiana Jones style.) Will guilt by association put an end to his autocracy? Or will — much the same thing — public weariness force his retirement? Mr Hawass claims that, because he is appointed, not elected, “the question of public support is not relevant to my position.” Perhaps he has been breathing too much of the bad air in the pharoahs’ tombs.

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