It is official and in the mainstream media like Ahram. What's more, everybody seems to be happy and the protestors have agreed to stop their protests and sit ins. Big projects like the Grand Egyptian Museum and the Avenue of the Sphinxes will continue, although it is unclear where the money will come from until tourism picks up again.
Mostafa Amine was formerly head of the Islamic and Coptic Antiquities Department. Quite what that means for any new projects, news or even publication of past SCA projects remains to be seen but it coudd be a fallow few years for Egyptology unless foreign missions are licensed.
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