Farouk Hosny

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Farouk Hosny

Farouk Abd-El-Aziz Hosny (long version of his name; Arabic فاروق حسني, DMG Fārūq Ḥusnī , German also Faruk Hosni , Faruk Husni ; * 1938 in Alexandria , Egypt ) is an Egyptian painter and was his country's minister of culture from 1987 to 2011.

politics

Hosny was appointed Minister of Culture in 1987. He was previously director of the Egyptian Academy in Rome . He remained Minister of Culture until March 2011. In the course of the revolution in Egypt in 2011 , he was recalled by the transitional government and Emad Abu Ghazi , professor at Cairo University , was appointed as his successor.

When it comes to the traditional interpretation of Islam , such as the headscarf , Farouk Hosny is one of the liberal forces in his country, which has earned him hostility from conservative and Islamist circles such as the Muslim Brotherhood .

Candidate as UNESCO Director General

In early 2009, the Arab states agreed on Farouk Hosny as their candidate for the post of UNESCO Director General. After Hosny's candidacy was announced on March 1, 2009, Bernard-Henri Lévy , Claude Lanzmann and Elie Wiesel published a statement in the Le Monde newspaper in which they spoke out against Farouk Hosny as the new UNESCO Director General. The background to the declaration are anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli statements attributed to Hosny:

  • “ Israel has never made a contribution to civilization, in any epoch; it has only appropriated the goods of others. "
  • “ Israeli culture is an inhuman culture, an aggressive, racist, arrogant culture based on a very simple principle: to steal what does not belong to it and then pass it off as something of its own. "
  • “ Bring these books to me, and when they are I will burn them before your eyes. “Hosny claims to have uttered the testimony" in a rage "to an Egyptian parliamentarian who was concerned about alleged anti-Arab Israeli books in the Alexandrian library.

Sometimes the authenticity of his statements is questioned. After Lévys, Lanzmann and Wiesel declared, Hosny sent Le Monde a declaration with the words: "Nothing is further from me than racism, the negation of others or the wish to express oneself hurtful about Jewish culture or another culture."

Farouk Hosny explained about the first quote: “You can only see these words in their context to understand their meaning. I said this in response to someone who claims, without any scientific evidence, that the Jews built the greatest pyramid. There is no building and no evidence that they built a similar building anywhere. "

Israel withdrew its objections to Hosny's appointment on May 27, 2009. The Bulgarian Irina Bokowa was ultimately elected as the new General Director of UNESCO .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Egypt's Minister of Culture Faruk Hosni - Israel nods to anti-Semites. In: http://www.taz.de . Die Tageszeitung , May 26, 2009, p. 1 , accessed on May 27, 2009 .
  2. ↑ Egypt Today magazine: UNESCO loses the Egyptian candidate , August 29, 2009
  3. ↑ according to the interview in SPIEGEL No. 23/2009, p. 115
  4. ↑ a b Rudolf Walther: False alarm about Faruk Hosni , May 27, 2009
  5. ↑ hen / Reuters / ddp : Unesco candidate regrets the call to burn Israeli books. In: http://www.spiegel.de/ . Der Spiegel , May 27, 2009, p. 1 , accessed May 28, 2009 .
  6. ↑ Egypt Today magazine: UNESCO loses the Egyptian candidate , August 29, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Hosny, Farouk
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hosni, Faruk; Hosny, Farouk Abd-El-Aziz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Egyptian painter and minister of culture
DATE OF BIRTH 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Alexandria , Egypt