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Egyptian Culture Minister Farouk Hosni's bid to take over a major United Nations organization is falling apart thanks to charges that his past comments on Israel indicate he's an anti-Jewish bigot - and therefore unfit for the post...
...Though long considered the favorite to win the position of Director General at the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in Paris, Hosni's chances of winning that role later this month have been hit by an international campaign launched earlier this year. It began with a boom last May, when French writer Bernard-Henri Lévy, Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel, and French film director Claude Lanzmann authored an editorial in Le Monde accusing Hosni of being a "dangerous man" who'd been responsible for a series of "insane declarations" regarding Israel...
...Those statements, the writers argued, represent an "anthology of hate and error" and a "frenzy of conspiracy theories" that should disqualify Hosni from the UNESCO job considered "one of the most important posts of cultural responsibility on the planet". (Read: "U.S. Conservatives Attack UNESCO's Sex-Ed Guidelines...
...government-run Egyptian Trade Union Federation. But legal restraints have not stopped workers from laying down their tools; analysts attribute the phenomenon to the declining living standards that have accompanied the government's market-oriented economic policies, combined with the absence of democratic channels of recourse in President Hosni Mubarak's authoritarian regime. By some estimates, Egypt has seen at least 250 strike actions this year alone, organized locally and often featuring women workers playing a leading role. "Everything in the country is expensive, and most workers work two jobs, and still, it's not enough," says Wael Habib...
...They were chanting against Hosni Mubarak, against Suzanne Mubarak, they were chanting against Gamal Mubarak. Outright chants," says Hossam al-Hamalawy, a left-wing journalist and labor activist, of recent strikes in the Delta. "They had 20,000 people marching for an hour in the city of Mahalla demanding that Mubarak will be overthrown, and then people say that these workers are not political?" Even so, says Beinin, most of Egypt's strike leaders don't belong to political parties, and doubts that Egypt's opposition groups will be able to channel workers' dissent into a unified push for political...