UNESCO nominates Egyptian as its new director following US withdrawal
Published on: Oct. 7, 2025, 12:15 a.m. | Source: The Indian Express
UNESCO is slated to have its first director from the Arab world after an Egyptian former tourism and antiquities minister, Khaled el-Anani, was nominated by the agency’s executive board Monday. If confirmed by UNESCO’s general assembly next month, el-Anani will inherit an agency reeling from the Trump administration’s recent decision to pull the United States […]
