A number of archeologists organized a protest for Sunday, in front of the Cabinet demanding Egypt's Prime Minister Essam Sharaf to reinstate the Ministry of Antiquities. They raised banners to express their demands to cleanse the ministry from remnants of the former regime. The demonstrators demanded hiring temporary archeologists and fresh graduates, in addition to dismissing the Director General of the High Council of Antiquities. The demonstrators nominated Abdel Haleem Nour al-Din to appoint him as Egypt's Minister of Antiquities. The Public Coordinator of the monuments' Revolutionaries Movement, Intesar Ghareeb, said the movement's main demands are to cleanse the Egyptian ministries from the remnants of the former regime. Meanwhile, the temporary employees of the Center of the Desert Researches, related to the Ministry of Agriculture and organized a demonstration demanding Prime Minister Essam Sharaf to hire them. On the other hand, hundreds of Egypt's Public Authority of Transportation employees dissolved their strike after they received a promise to resolve their problems.
