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  • Egyptian Blames Jewish ‘Conspiracy’ for UNESCO Loss (+ Islamophobia)

    09/24/2009 10:13:03 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 3 replies · 333+ views
    JTA ^ | September 23, 2009
    Egypt's culture minister blamed a Jewish "conspiracy" for his election loss to head a U.N. agency. Bulgarian diplomat Irina Gueorguieva Bokova, 57, edged Farouk Hosny, 31-27, in a fifth and final vote for general director by UNESCO executive board members at the Paris-based organization on Tuesday night. The previous evening, the candidates were tied with 29 votes each, forcing a new election. "It was clear by the end of the competition that there was a conspiracy against me," Hosny said Wednesday after landing in Egypt, The Associated Press reported. "There are a group of the world's Jews who had a...
  • France: Female Ex-Minister to Join Académie Française SIMONE VEIL AUTHOR OF ABORTION LAW

    03/19/2010 1:39:46 PM PDT · by Cincinna · 5 replies · 311+ views
    The New York Times ^ | March 17, 2010 | STEVEN ERLANGER
    Simone Veil, 82, a Holocaust survivor who became a French minister and president of the European Parliament, will become the sixth woman to enter the Académie Française on Thursday. The state-sponsored body oversees French language and usage. The ceremony will be attended by President Nicolas Sarkozy and former President Jacques Chirac and will be televised live. Ms. Veil, who also served on the Constitutional Council, is considered responsible for legalizing abortion in France as minister of health in 1975 and is one of the most popular women in the country.