Farouk Hosny Egypt’s culture minister, and candidate to lead Unesco, the UN’s cultural arm, has expressed “solemn regret” over a May 2008 pledge to burn Israeli books in Egyptian libraries. Read more here
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Egypt’s Unesco hopeful in book burning row
Farouk Hosny Egypt’s culture minister, and candidate to lead Unesco, the UN’s cultural arm, has expressed “solemn regret” over a May 2008 pledge to burn Israeli books in Egyptian libraries. Read more here
28 May 09
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