Khaled el-Enany, set to be elected UNESCO’s director-general at the 6 November General Conference in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, relied on Egyptian diplomatic power to convince and rally behind him the majority of Executive Board member states on 6 October. For starters, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi made it a point to remove obstacles in the way of his former tourism and antiquities minister, such as the candidacy of Gabon’s Noël Nelson […]
Khaled el-Enany, set to be elected UNESCO’s director-general at the 6 November General Conference in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, relied on Egyptian diplomatic power to convince and rally behind him the majority of Executive Board member states on 6 October. For starters, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi made it a point to remove obstacles in the way of his former tourism and antiquities minister, such as the candidacy of Gabon’s Noël Nelson […] Read More