Benita Ferrero-Waldner, the European Commissioner for External Relations, pulled out of the UNESCO director-general race Sunday after three rounds of voting failed to deliver a winner. Egyptian culture minister Farouk Hosni is the frontrunner.
After failing to get the required 30 votes in Saturday’s third round of voting, Egyptian culture minister Farouk Hosni faces a fourth round for the job as UNESCO’s director-general. Hosni’s bid has been clouded by anti-Semitism allegations.
Some critics of French Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux (centre of photo) have said he should resign after he made a joke, which they say was racist, about a young Arab. He and his defenders, however, say he was misinterpreted.
On April 27, FRANCE 24's Arabic channel extends its daily broadcast to 10 hours, with a new format and programming schedule. Christine Ockrent, the channel's general manager, talks about the network's new expansion.
In this edition of the magazine: Altan Gökalp brings to light the history of harems and in Lyon, an exhibition displaying clothes entirely made of paper.
In this edition: riots between Jews and Arabs in the Israeli northern town of Acre, inside Gaza's secret smuggling tunnels, the fate of Iraqi Christians who are suffering a wave of violent attacks and the second edition of Abu Dhabi's film festival.
In Silwan, an Arab village in East Jerusalem, thousands of tourists learn about the City of David, the birthplace of biblical Jerusalem. But most of them learn nothing about the 45,000 Palestinians who live here amid Israeli archaeological digs.
‘Noor’, the Turkish soap opera following the twists and turns in the love lives of a rich Istanbul family, has turned into a social phenomenon across the Arab world.
Many of Egyptian cinema's biggest stars were among those gathered at a Cairo church for the funeral of Egyptian director Youssef Chahine, Arab cinema's most famous director.
