There’s satisfaction in the Egyptian blogosphere today at the Mubarak regime’s failure to foist culture minister Farouk Hosni upon the rest of the world as head of Unesco.

Reporting of the contest for the job (eventually won by Bulgarian diplomat Irina Bokova) focused mainly on a remark by Hosni about burning Jewish/Israeli books, though as I pointed out earlier (as did others), this was by no means the only reason why he had to be rejected.

The question now is whether Hosni, who is 71, will return to his previous role as Egyptian culture minister.

Posted by Brian Whitaker, 23 September 2009.