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October 2, 2009       Share:    

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/29/world/middleeast/29egypt.html

Some Egyptians Don't Think Farouk Hosny Deserved to Head UNESCO

[New York Times] Michael Slackman - Some observers in Cairo said that Farouk Hosny's failure in his bid to lead UNESCO represented more a rejection of the authoritarian leaders of Muslims and Arabs. Hosny, a favorite of President Hosni Mubarak, was roundly despised by many members of the nation's cultural elite, who say he did little or nothing in his 22 years as culture minister to encourage cultural development and did much, particularly through the enforcement of strict government censorship, to stunt it. In the independent newspaper Shorouk, Fahmy Howeidy wrote: "I am not exaggerating when I say that the failure of Mr. Farouk Hosny is not due to his hostility against Israel, as it was said, but the important reason that contributed to his failure is he represents a country that ranks among the politically failed states, where a monopoly of power and governing the state under emergency rule for more than a quarter of a century, where it suppresses public freedom, affects the image of its candidate."

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