Egypt
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El Aref)
See the above page for more details about Bokova.
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Egypt
Heritage Management: UNESCO's new director-general
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El Aref)
Irina Bokova, the newly appointed UNESCO director-general, visited Egypt on 5 December to attend the first meeting of the permanent Forum of Arab-African Dialogue on Democracy and Human Rights after being invited by Boutros Boutros-Ghali, president of the National Council for Human Rights.
Bokova met President Hosni Mubarak and Mrs Suzanne Mubarak in Sharm El-Sheikh where they discussed regional issues, including the mode and strategy of cooperation between Egypt and UNESCO.
Bokova also paid a visit to Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni, her competitor during the UNESCO election. It was a very warm and friendly meeting. After 45 minutes of discussion, Bokova and Hosni told reporters that the next joint venture project between UNESCO and Egypt will be to construct an underwater museum on the Mediterranean sea-bed to display sunken treasures from ancient Alexandria.
Hosni said collaboration with UNESCO will continue on several projects, including the second and final phase of the National Museum of Egyptian Civilisation in Fustat, Old Cairo, and the third phase of the Grand Egyptian Museum overlooking the Giza plateau.
See the above page for more details about Bokova.
- More Re Unesco Assistance For Egypt
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) During a meeting held yesterday at the Supreme Council of Antiquities’ (SCA) offices, the director of UNESCO’s cultural department Tamara Twinasky announced UNESCO’s full collaboration with the SCA to restore and preserve...
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Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova inspected the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square to check the damage after it was robbed during the chaos of the January 25 Revolution. Guided by Tarek El-Awadi, director general of the...
- Interview: Unesco - Connecting Culture And The People
The Guardian, UK (Florence Evin and Brigitte Perucca) Last September, after political infighting on a scale rarely seen at Unesco, Irina Bokova, 57, originally from Bulgaria, was elected as the first women to head the organisation. Last November she...
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State Information Service Visiting Italian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Ugo Intini has expressed satisfaction over Egypt's nomination of Culture Minister Farouk Hosni for the post UNESCO President. Intini says that his country supports Hosni...
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