Egypt's Blogosphere: Egypt's Cultural Minister Deserved to Not Get UNESCO Post

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	Egypt's Blogosphere: Egypt's Cultural Minister Deserved to Not Get UNESCO Post

zizzy

9-24-2009 10:20 AM

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zizzy says:

Believe the blogosphere:

...if he had won it would have signified the "rejection of our freedom as Egyptians.

Egyptian culture was humiliated for two decades by the hands of this man.

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