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unusual facts about Minister of Culture



Carál Ní Chuilín

Re-elected in 2011, she was on 17 May 2011 elected by the Assembly under the D'Hondt method as Minister of Culture, Arts and Leisure.

Civic Holiday

In 1974 the Government of Alberta, acting through Minister of Culture Dr. Horst A. Schmid, declared the first Monday in August an annual holiday to recognize and celebrate the varied cultural heritage of Albertans, known as Heritage Day.

Muriel Mayette

From March 2008, Mayette was part of the commission led by Hugues Gall initiated by Minister of Culture Christine Albanel, to provide the post of director of the Villa Medicis in Rome.

Olli Saarela

On May 21, 2006, Saarela married Tanja Karpela (née Vienonen, 2006-2008 Saarela), who was then the Minister of Culture in Finland and was Miss Finland in 1991.

Radio Norge

The Minister of Culture, Valgerd Svarstad Haugland presented the new station, which at that time was called Kanal4 as the winner of the FM4-license.

Theodor Paleologu

Additionally, in the first two Emil Boc cabinets, from December 2008 to December 2009 he was Minister of Culture, Religious Affairs and Cultural Heritage.


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Aleppo Citadel Museum

The museum was opened on 26 September 1994 with the presence of then-minister of culture Najah al-Attar.

Andrée Putman

From the 1980s, she led more and more interior design projects: hotels such as Le Lac in Japan, Im Wasserturm in Germany and the Sheraton in Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris; stores for Azzedine Alaia, Balenciaga, Bally and Lagerfeld; offices, particularly the one for French Minister of Culture Jack Lang in 1984; and museums like the CAPC, Bordeaux’s contemporary art museum.

Belgium in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006

Flemish Minister of Culture Bert Anciaux gave a subsidy of 60000 euros in order to promote Kate Ryan and her song in the other participating countries of the year's contest.

Beni Suef Cultural Palace fire

In the aftermath the Minister of Culture, Farouk Hosni, resigned, a move that was later revoked by President Hosni Mubarak.

Cathedral of Saint Vissarion of Smolyan

Among the 5,000 guests who attended the cathedral's inauguration were Prime Minister of Bulgaria Sergey Stanishev, Minister of Culture Stefan Danailov, politicians Anastasiya Mozer, Emel Etem, Petar Beron and Pavel Chernev.

Center for Research and Restoration of Museums of France

Christiane Naffah was appointed director of the centre by the French Minister of Culture and Communications Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, replacing Jean-Pierre Mohen.

Choe Kwang-shik

In 2013, Choe stepped down from his position as Minister of Culture, with Yoo Jin-ryong taking over.

Cuban Rap Agency

Indeed in 1999, Abel Prieto, the minister of Culture, declared rap to be " an authentic expression of Cuban culture".

Dirty Diaries

Due to the debate over the use of tax money for financing a pornographic feature, the director of the SFI Cissi Elwin Frenkel considered it necessary to write a letter to Swedish Minister of Culture, Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth, and explain exactly why it received the financing.

Ebrahim Asgharzadeh

From 1982 to 1988, Asgharzadeh worked closely with future president Muhammad Khatami, who was then head of the official Kayhan newspaper and later became the minister of culture and Islamic guidance.

Emad Abu Ghazy

Abu Ghazy was born in the Egyptian city of Cairo in 1955, his parents were former minister of culture Badr El-Din Abu Ghazy and artist Reaya Helmy, his father's uncle was Egypt's number one sculptor Mahmoud Mokhtar.

European Heritage Days

In 1985, in Granada, at the 2nd European Conference of Ministers responsible for Architectural Heritage, the French Minister of Culture proposed that the project be internationalised under the Council of Europe.

Facundo Cabral

Bolivian Minister of Culture Elizabeth Salguero said Cabral's death saddened her because "you can not understand that there are people who want to do much damage to a man who gave so much as a singer, composer, and poet." "He was a philosopher, a fighter for social justice, and to die that way is very painful."

Grigol Mgaloblishvili

Mgaloblishvili implemented a minor reshuffle of the Cabinet, appointing Zurab Adeishvili as the Minister of Justice, Koba Subeliani as the Minister for Environment Protection and Grigol Vashadze was created the Minister of Culture and Cultural Heritage Preservation.

Gysi

Klaus Gysi (1912-1999), Minister of Culture, German Democratic Republic

Hartmut Holzapfel

Holzapfel became active in Social Democratic party politics already in 1961, becoming the personal assistant of the Hessian Minister of Culture Ludwig von Friedeburg, the author of the most significant liberal education reforms in Germany of that period, in the key years from 1969 to 1974.

History of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt

Hassan accused the Minister of Culture (Farouk Hosny) of leading what Hassan called the `current US-led war against Islamic culture and identity`.

Hoepla

Other newspapers, though, were more positive, and the commentary in parliament by SGP representative C. N. van Dis (the Staatkundig Gereformeerde Partij is a small, orthodox, Calvinist party), who strongly criticized the Minister of Culture Marga Klompé for allowing women to be degraded, did not meet with approval in parliament or the press.

Iloosh Ahluwalia

On International Women's Day, 2004, Ahluwalia was among the notable Indian women artists who came together for an art festival at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts "Mud House" which was opened by Bhavna Chikhalia, Minister of Culture and Parliamentary Affairs.

James Ossuary

Limor Livnat, Israeli Minister of Culture, mandated the work of a scientific commission to study the suspicious finds.

Jennifer Mossop

She later served as parliamentary assistant to the new Minister of Culture Caroline Di Cocco.

Jewish Historical Institute

In 2011, Paweł Śpiewak, a Professor of Sociology at Warsaw University and former politician, was nominated as the Director of the Jewish Historical Institute by Bogdan Zdrojewski, Minister of Culture and National Heritage.

Lazarus Tembo

He was born in the Eastern province of Zambia, went blind at the age of eight, and eventually, under President Kaunda, became Zambia's Junior Minister of Culture.

Leonid Yakobson

The last attack occurred in September 1975 in Moscow at the time of admission to the Minister of Culture Pyotr Demichev.

Marcel Weyland

He was awarded in 2005 the Order of Merit by the Polish government for his contributions to Polish culture, in 2008 the Medal of the Order of Australia, in 2012 (by the President of Poland) the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit to the Polish Commonwealth and 1n 2013 the gold medal Gloria Artis by the Polish Minister of Culture.

Mehdi Mabrouk

He serves as the Minister of Culture under Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali.

Monument to Nizami Ganjavi in Rome

Mehriban Aliyeva, the first lady of Azerbaijan and president of Heydar Aliyev Foundation and also Serena Forni, head of the Rome City Mayor’s Office International Department, representatives of Azerbaijani Embassy in Italy, deputy minister of Culture and Tourism of Azerbaijan and others participated in the opening ceremony of the monument.

NMTV

The service was opened by Norwegian Minister of Culture, Trond Giske.

Order of Charlemagne

The Grand Master of the Order is the Prime Minister of the Principality of Andorra (currently Antoni Martí) and the Grand Chancellor is the Minister of Culture (currently Albert Esteve).

Pierre Pinoncelli

He has also thrown a bottle of red ink over André Malraux, the French minister of culture at the time, robbed a bank in Nice of 10 francs using a sawn-off shotgun, and cut the tip off one of his own fingers at an art exhibition in Colombia, V Festival de Performance de Cali, in protest at FARC guerillas holding the French-Colombian politician Íngrid Betancourt hostage.

Polish National Ballet

The Polish National Ballet was established on 29 April 2009 by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage Bogdan Zdrojewski upon a motion from the General Director of the Grand Theatre – National Opera, Waldemar Dąbrowski.

Popkomm

Figures such as Feargal Sharkey, former lead singer of the Undertones and chairman of the UK’s Live Music Forum, Gilberto Gil, world-famous musician and Minister of Culture of Popkomm’s partner country Brazil, Claude Nobs, founder of the legendary Montreux Jazz Festival, and boy group impresario Lou Pearlman were all present at Popkomm 2006.

Raoul Peck

Peck served as Minister of Culture in the Haitan government of Prime Minister Rosny Smarth (1996–97), ultimately resigning his post along with the PM.

Reshat Bardhi

On the occasion of the 7th World Bektashi Congress that was held in October 2005 in Tirana, Dede Reshat hosted the Minister of Culture and Tourism of Turkey, Atilla Koç, as well as the mayors of the Turkish towns of Nevşehir andHacıbektaş.

Ricardo Semprun

He is the third of five children of the writer, politician, and former Minister of Culture for Spain Jorge Semprún and the French film-editor Colette Leloup.

Second Ponta cabinet

On 12 December 2013, Minister of Culture Daniel Barbu resigned after displaced statements on "too big" budget for prevention and control of HIV/AIDS.

Soe Nyunt

U Soe Nyunt served as Deputy Minister of Information from 1992 to 2003 and Deputy Minister of Culture from 1993-2003 under Major General Kyi Aung.

Stupka

Bohdan Stupka, popular Ukrainian actor and the minister of culture

Tambroni Cabinet

Its Minister of Culture Umberto Tupini attacked Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita, announcing that all the "shameful films" would soon be banned.

Thanos Mikroutsikos

After the elections of October 1993 he was appointed by the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) which formed the new government, as Alternate-Minister of Culture with late Melina Mercouri as minister.

Valentina Tăzlăuanu

Worked for Radio Moldova, as Senior Editor at the Committee for Book Publishing, as Chief of Arts Department at Literatura şi Arta magazine (1977–1990), Deputy Minister of Culture (1997–2000).

Vere Johns

In 2012, former Minister of Culture Olivia Grange called for Johns to receive a posthumous honour in recognition of his contribution to Jamaican popular music.

Zayed University

The surprise announcement, first that Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan would move to the Minister of Culture, Youth and Community Development, was made on Twitter by Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.

Żygulski

Kazimierz Żygulski (1919–2012), Polish sociologist, political activist and Minister of Culture