Iran has appointed as its new deputy culture minister in charge of media and communications Mohammad-Ali Ramin, a top Ahmadinejad advisor and “the brain” behind the president’s strategy of Holocaust denial.  more

More than a year after I first wrote in a dispatch about concerns that Egyptian culture minister Farouk Hosni might become head of the United Nations Economic, Social and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the international media are finally reporting on this topic. For example, there was a front page reference in the International Herald Tribune last   more