This week, the UNESCO voters will have a choice between two women with nothing to disqualify them and a man whose entire past speaks against the institution's ideals.
AP | ANGELA DOLAND | Posted 11.17.2009 | World
PARIS — He's an Egyptian culture minister who once threatened to burn Israeli books – and he might soon become the face of the United Nati...
Bernard-Henri Lévy | Posted 11.14.2009 | World
Farouk Hosni, Egypt's minister of culture and candidate for director-general of UNESCO, threatens the organization's legitimacy, competence and means of action.
Bernard-Henri Lévy | Posted 11.08.2009 | World
Will UNESCO designate as its head a man who is now famous for having promised to burn with his own hands books written in Hebrew?
Bernard-Henri Lévy | Posted 07.03.2009 | World
An open call to Barack Obama, to Nicolas Sarkozy, and to others: Before October, the date of his already claimed victory, we must block Mr. Farouk Hosni from becoming the Director General of UNESCO.
Bernard-Henri Lévy | Posted 11.21.2009 | World