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...successful claim against a private collector, Shelby White, a trustee of the Met, who agreed to give back 10 items from the collection she had formed with her late husband. And Italy is by no means the only nation making demands. Egypt wants the bust of Nefertiti from the Egyptian Museum in Berlin. Peru says Yale must return artifacts from the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu. And China has asked the U.S. to ban the import of almost anything of aesthetic interest--scrolls, paintings, furniture--made from the prehistoric era to the end of the Qing dynasty...
...picked through their treasures. It's also a defense against the suction of the present-day free market, which could easily vacuum up whatever the colonial powers haven't carted away. Zahi Hawass is the very vocal head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities. "While I believe that Egyptian monuments are the shared heritage of mankind," he told TIME by e-mail, "I also believe that as a sovereign state and the home of this great civilization, Egypt has a right to protect its legal and moral rights in regard to its antiquities...
...MacGregor, whose museum displays the marbles in galleries near its great collections of Egyptian, Near Eastern, Asian and African art, the division of the work between London and Athens is ideal. "The sculptures are part of two separate stories," he says. "One is the story of architecture and sculpture in Athens. The other is the story of sculpture in the world...
...dictatorship, reflecting the rising calls for democracy in Egypt at the time he was writing it. The climax of the book unfolds with a scheme by Nagi, the medical student, and Salah, the professor, to stage a small protest during an official visit to the U.S. by the unnamed Egyptian President. Having been selected to give a short speech welcoming the President to Chicago, Salah intends to read a statement defending the right of Egyptians to freedom and democracy. But he chickens out, and later commits suicide. The scene is a disappointment to some Al Aswany fans, many of whom...
...been harassed by security police, and Islamic radicals have publicly denounced him. But despite the outward pessimism in Yacoubian and Chicago, Al Aswany strives to be optimistic about his country's future. He believes some progress has been made, thanks to the courageous efforts of Egyptian judges, teachers, journalists and bloggers in demanding greater freedoms. "Egypt is not the same country it was 10 years ago," he says, sitting down for a cigarette in his dental office after treating a patient one recent evening. "In politics, in literature, Egypt woke...