Dr Monica Hanna is the Dean of the College of Archaeology and Cultural Heritage at the Arab Academy for Science, Technology, and Maritime Transport. She set up the Egypt's Heritage Taskforce in the wake of the Arab Spring, and was recognised in 2014 for her work by SAFE (Saving Antiquities For Everyone). In 2020, she was part of a group opposing the Egyptian authorities' relocation of sphinxes to Tahrir Square, and Menkaure's pyramid casing project. More recently, she has continued to speak out against the inherent colonialism in Egyptology by calling for the restitution of several objects to Egypt, such as the Rosetta Stone and the Bust of Nefertiti. She lives in Cairo.
