PARIS — France is excited with bits of gossip that its delightful first woman, Carla Bruni, will star in Woody Allen's next motion picture. In the canine days of summer, there's been little else to bite on. Bruni, to judge by her decision of President Nicolas Sarkozy, likes short, determined, uneasy men, so there's rationale to the thought.
Bruni has assumed her first-woman part with prudent aplomb. Be that as it may, let's face honest's, a star. I'd affection to see her in an Allen film. All that European refinement is a Brooklyn Jewish kid's dream. Sarkozy won't protest: He exchanges legislative issues as display.
Discussing society and governmental issues, and so far as that is concerned Jews, an "affaire" is blending as the French come back from the shorelines that may even consign the Bruni-Allen talk. It concerns the Egyptian society serve, his office to head the Paris-based United Nations social organization Unesco, and his past talk of blazing Israeli books.
The man being referred to is Farouk Hosny, a 71-year-old painter who has served as President Hosni Mubarak's social master for over two decades. He has the Arab League, the African Union and the Organization of the Islamic Conference behind him in his offer to succeed Koichiro Matsuura, a Japanese negotiator, as Unesco chief general when voting starts on Sept. 17. As of not long ago, he seemed, by all accounts, to be the top pick.
Having an Arab lead the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization surprisingly since its foundation in 1945 would, on the substance of it, be great. No place are the social gaps Unesco should span more prominent than between the Muslim world and the West. President Obama made a visit to Cairo a centerpiece of his effort to Muslims. Middle Easterner human progress, double-crossing its diverse history, has slacked over decades in instructive and logical accomplishment, a falling flat with desperate political outcomes.
Yet, there are shadows over Hosny. Addressed in Parliament a year ago about the vicinity of Israeli books in the Alexandria Library, the pastor answered: "We should smolder these books. In the event that there are any, I will smolder them myself before you."
Roger Cohen
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A remark summoning Germany, 1933, is not what you need on your résumé when applying to end up social conciliator-in-boss. That is not all. Reflecting stock deduction in Egyptian and Arab scholarly circles, Hosny has described Israeli society as "forceful" and "bigot," slowed down social ties with Israel that may change demeanors, and sold the old canard about "the penetration of Jews into the universal media."
This was refered to in May by the heavyweight Jewish troika of Elie Wiesel, Claude Lanzmann and Bernard-Henri Lévy in an article called "The Shame of a Disaster Foretold" distributed by Le Monde. They released Hosny as "an unsafe man, an inciter of hearts and minds" and required his dismissal.
Hosny reacted with an expression of remorse. He "seriously" lamented his words. The book-blazing expression was "the opposite I accept and what I am." It was articulated "without aim or intention."
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The setting of Palestinian enduring and the "significant feeling" it evokes must be caught on. Nothing, he composed, was more remote to him than "the craving to hurt Jewish society."
Lévy was blistering in counter: "Palestinians endure — hence smoldering books written in Hebrew is proposed."
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Ethan September 7, 2009
Outlandishly illogical.An abusive dictator (Egypt's leader) needs this gentleman, so we ought to condifer it? Why? Are we to bow before any...
Rich September 7, 2009
Praise to every one of the individuals who recollect the hogwash Cohen has retched about Iran. Mr. Hosny is a man who is about structure and nothing about...
Rik September 7, 2009
I have a lot of esteem for Roger Cohen. His segments are among the most invigorating, as in they are thought...
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Case shut? Not exactly. This is an essential political arrangement, behind which Mubarak has put all his weight, so we should ponder it. Hosny, inside of a horrid and abusive Egyptian political range, has demonstrated some openness — taking warmth to get Daniel Barenboim to lead the Cairo Symphony Orchestra, setting out to condemn ladies in headscarves, and vowing to decipher the Israeli essayists Amos Oz and David Grossman (in spite of the fact that this move is being challenged). He rivulets discuss, at any rate.
The Obama organization, which needs Mubarak for its Middle East peace arrangements, is staying silent. So is Sarkozy, who needs Mubarak for his fantasies of a Mediterranean Union. In this way, most shockingly, is Israel.
The day by day Haaretz cited a spilled Israeli Foreign Ministry link after a meeting in the middle of Mubarak and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in May. It said that "in accordance with understandings with Egypt," Israel's position on Hosny had changed to "not-contradicted." The compensation stays misty. Bibi was ever a steed dealer.
I'm likewise in the not-contradicted camp. What Hosny said was awful, an impression of the biases of his countrymen — preferences that Israel's settlements approach does nothing to mitigate. There are great option applicants, eminently the previous Austrian remote priest Benita Ferrero-Waldner, who convey none of his things.
But on the other hand there's something hesitant about the options. Hosny remains at the essence of the social difficulties defying us. We should get him inside the tent instead of stir the old against Western, hostile to colonialist flares — reminiscent of what drove the United States to relinquish Unesco somewhere around 1984 and 2002 — by dismissing him.
And after that, with the huge U.S. commitment to the Unesco spending plan as influence, how about we squeeze him steadily to battle the counter Semitic dogmatism harming youthful Arab minds; support dialog; open Arab brains to science and instruction; and grasp the peace that Unesco was set up to cultivate by emptying the noxious well out of which his own particular now-lamented
Bruni has assumed her first-woman part with prudent aplomb. Be that as it may, let's face honest's, a star. I'd affection to see her in an Allen film. All that European refinement is a Brooklyn Jewish kid's dream. Sarkozy won't protest: He exchanges legislative issues as display.
Discussing society and governmental issues, and so far as that is concerned Jews, an "affaire" is blending as the French come back from the shorelines that may even consign the Bruni-Allen talk. It concerns the Egyptian society serve, his office to head the Paris-based United Nations social organization Unesco, and his past talk of blazing Israeli books.
The man being referred to is Farouk Hosny, a 71-year-old painter who has served as President Hosni Mubarak's social master for over two decades. He has the Arab League, the African Union and the Organization of the Islamic Conference behind him in his offer to succeed Koichiro Matsuura, a Japanese negotiator, as Unesco chief general when voting starts on Sept. 17. As of not long ago, he seemed, by all accounts, to be the top pick.
Having an Arab lead the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization surprisingly since its foundation in 1945 would, on the substance of it, be great. No place are the social gaps Unesco should span more prominent than between the Muslim world and the West. President Obama made a visit to Cairo a centerpiece of his effort to Muslims. Middle Easterner human progress, double-crossing its diverse history, has slacked over decades in instructive and logical accomplishment, a falling flat with desperate political outcomes.
Yet, there are shadows over Hosny. Addressed in Parliament a year ago about the vicinity of Israeli books in the Alexandria Library, the pastor answered: "We should smolder these books. In the event that there are any, I will smolder them myself before you."
Roger Cohen
Global issues and discretion.
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A remark summoning Germany, 1933, is not what you need on your résumé when applying to end up social conciliator-in-boss. That is not all. Reflecting stock deduction in Egyptian and Arab scholarly circles, Hosny has described Israeli society as "forceful" and "bigot," slowed down social ties with Israel that may change demeanors, and sold the old canard about "the penetration of Jews into the universal media."
This was refered to in May by the heavyweight Jewish troika of Elie Wiesel, Claude Lanzmann and Bernard-Henri Lévy in an article called "The Shame of a Disaster Foretold" distributed by Le Monde. They released Hosny as "an unsafe man, an inciter of hearts and minds" and required his dismissal.
Hosny reacted with an expression of remorse. He "seriously" lamented his words. The book-blazing expression was "the opposite I accept and what I am." It was articulated "without aim or intention."
Promotion
Keep perusing the fundamental story
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The setting of Palestinian enduring and the "significant feeling" it evokes must be caught on. Nothing, he composed, was more remote to him than "the craving to hurt Jewish society."
Lévy was blistering in counter: "Palestinians endure — hence smoldering books written in Hebrew is proposed."
Keep perusing the primary story
Late COMMENTS
Ethan September 7, 2009
Outlandishly illogical.An abusive dictator (Egypt's leader) needs this gentleman, so we ought to condifer it? Why? Are we to bow before any...
Rich September 7, 2009
Praise to every one of the individuals who recollect the hogwash Cohen has retched about Iran. Mr. Hosny is a man who is about structure and nothing about...
Rik September 7, 2009
I have a lot of esteem for Roger Cohen. His segments are among the most invigorating, as in they are thought...
SEE ALL COMMENTS
Case shut? Not exactly. This is an essential political arrangement, behind which Mubarak has put all his weight, so we should ponder it. Hosny, inside of a horrid and abusive Egyptian political range, has demonstrated some openness — taking warmth to get Daniel Barenboim to lead the Cairo Symphony Orchestra, setting out to condemn ladies in headscarves, and vowing to decipher the Israeli essayists Amos Oz and David Grossman (in spite of the fact that this move is being challenged). He rivulets discuss, at any rate.
The Obama organization, which needs Mubarak for its Middle East peace arrangements, is staying silent. So is Sarkozy, who needs Mubarak for his fantasies of a Mediterranean Union. In this way, most shockingly, is Israel.
The day by day Haaretz cited a spilled Israeli Foreign Ministry link after a meeting in the middle of Mubarak and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in May. It said that "in accordance with understandings with Egypt," Israel's position on Hosny had changed to "not-contradicted." The compensation stays misty. Bibi was ever a steed dealer.
I'm likewise in the not-contradicted camp. What Hosny said was awful, an impression of the biases of his countrymen — preferences that Israel's settlements approach does nothing to mitigate. There are great option applicants, eminently the previous Austrian remote priest Benita Ferrero-Waldner, who convey none of his things.
But on the other hand there's something hesitant about the options. Hosny remains at the essence of the social difficulties defying us. We should get him inside the tent instead of stir the old against Western, hostile to colonialist flares — reminiscent of what drove the United States to relinquish Unesco somewhere around 1984 and 2002 — by dismissing him.
And after that, with the huge U.S. commitment to the Unesco spending plan as influence, how about we squeeze him steadily to battle the counter Semitic dogmatism harming youthful Arab minds; support dialog; open Arab brains to science and instruction; and grasp the peace that Unesco was set up to cultivate by emptying the noxious well out of which his own particular now-lamented
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