Comments on: Zahi Show continues https://arabawy.org/27825/zahi-show-continues/ Hossam el-Hamalawy Tue, 23 Feb 2021 14:07:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: David Kessler https://arabawy.org/27825/zahi-show-continues/#comment-26540 Sun, 08 May 2011 17:28:44 +0000 https://arabawy.org/?p=27825#comment-26540 The thing about Zahi Hawass is that he IS such an over-the-top character – and if you made him up in fiction, you’d be accused of exaggeration or creating a caricature rather than a character. He is certainly arrogant, bullying and self-serving. But in some ways his brusque manner and inability to suffer fools gladly is part of his – dare I say it – “charm”.

The one area where he can’t be allowed to get off the hook is his hypocrisy. He swims with the tide – the Egyptian government when it was strong; the opposition when it weakened. I suppose that would make him a great civil servant in the “Sir Humphrey” mould.

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