{"id":8602,"date":"2022-05-23T08:00:01","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T06:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/?p=8602"},"modified":"2022-12-25T11:25:53","modified_gmt":"2022-12-25T09:25:53","slug":"frances-new-culture-minister-meets-with-racist-taunts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/frances-new-culture-minister-meets-with-racist-taunts\/","title":{"rendered":"France\u2019s new Culture Minister Meets with Racist Taunts"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8609\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8609\" style=\"width: 1400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8609\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Rima-Abdul-Malak-nice-matin-the-markaz-review.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"918\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Rima-Abdul-Malak-nice-matin-the-markaz-review.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Rima-Abdul-Malak-nice-matin-the-markaz-review-600x393.jpg 600w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Rima-Abdul-Malak-nice-matin-the-markaz-review-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Rima-Abdul-Malak-nice-matin-the-markaz-review-1024x671.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Rima-Abdul-Malak-nice-matin-the-markaz-review-768x504.jpg 768w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Rima-Abdul-Malak-nice-matin-the-markaz-review-1320x866.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8609\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">French president Emmanuel Macron&#8217;s new Minister of Culture, Rima Abdul Malak (photo Nice Matin).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Muse of French universalism,<\/strong> <strong>Emmanuel Macron&#8217;s appointment of Rima Abdul Malak marks a break in the national political landscape. Born in Lebanon 44 years ago, an immigrant to Lyon a few years later with her parents, and formerly Macron&#8217;s Culture and Communication Advisor,\u00a0 Abdul Malak is reputedly hard-working and embodies a new generation, a woman likely to make things happen.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4>\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>\nRosa Maria Branche<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8603\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/rima-abdul-malak-jean-pierre-andre-the-markaz-review.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/rima-abdul-malak-jean-pierre-andre-the-markaz-review.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/rima-abdul-malak-jean-pierre-andre-the-markaz-review-600x495.jpg 600w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/rima-abdul-malak-jean-pierre-andre-the-markaz-review-300x247.jpg 300w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/rima-abdul-malak-jean-pierre-andre-the-markaz-review-768x633.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/> Four days after the appointment of Elisabeth Borne as Prime Minister \u2014 only the second woman in the history of France to hold this position \u2014 and 31 years after Edith Cresson who had faced criticism throughout her term causing her resignation, on Friday, May 20<sup>th<\/sup>, the \u00c9lys\u00e9e announced the composition of the new government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Franco-Lebanese Rima Abdul Malak named Minister of Culture,\u201d headlined France 24 in its television dispatch. Meanwhile, the names of the other ministers \u00c9ric Dupond-Moretti, Damien Abad, Gabriel Attal, and Am\u00e9lie Oud\u00e9a-Cast\u00e9rae scroll by without any other mention.<\/p>\n<p>The reactions are coming from all sides on Twitter, full of racism, tinged with colonial overtones.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ose-twitter ose-uid-c3ec07357cab35a92e2905a94cdb2a50 ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:600px; height:550px; max-height:550px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"Twitter\"><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"600\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">FunFact: Rima Abdul Malak, the new French Minister of Culture, used to run <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CSF_France?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CSF_France<\/a>, the French chapter of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ClownsWithoutBorders?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ClownsWithoutBorders<\/a>. \ud83e\udd21\ud83d\udc97<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dycPeIgHbd\">https:\/\/t.co\/dycPeIgHbd<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0MsMTpMaQU\">pic.twitter.com\/0MsMTpMaQU<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Fran\u00e7ois-Xavier Durandy (@fxdurandy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fxdurandy\/status\/1527714110393176064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 20, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Is Rima Abdul Malak here to entertain the gallery? Are ministerial positions reserved only for Gallic French people? What would we say if she were Algerian or from Guadeloupe?<\/p>\n<p>Identifying people with their origins seems to be a well-established cultural fact. When will we accept that bicultural individuals are French in their own right?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-8606\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/rima-abdul-malak-dessignace-the-markaz-review.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"711\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/rima-abdul-malak-dessignace-the-markaz-review.jpg 576w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/rima-abdul-malak-dessignace-the-markaz-review-169x300.jpg 169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>I remember the image of former Minister of Culture, Kim Jong-sook, born in Seoul, naturalized French under the name of Fleur Pellerin. After a brilliant career as a senior civil servant, she became, in 2014, the first personality of Asian origin to enter a French government. Less than two years later, she left the senior civil service to join the private sector.<\/p>\n<p>It is precisely the culture that poses a question for these people born of &#8220;foreign&#8221; origin. But what is French culture: the castles of the Loire, Moli\u00e8re, Voltaire, Balzac, or is it a hybrid culture nourished by modern exchanges and migrations, rich in its diversity, as witnessed by the artistic scene today? (Consider the writers Tahar Ben Jelloun and Amin Maalouf, respectively of Moroccan and Lebanese origin, who are both members of the Acad\u00e9mie Fran\u00e7aise, and write all their oeuvre in French\u2026)<\/p>\n<p>Beyond language, Francophonie advocates internationally for the values of solidarity, cultural diversity, democracy, human rights and the right to education.<\/p>\n<p>The Lebanese are well placed to know this. They have had political and cultural ties with France since the days of St. Louis. There are those Lebanese who know French culture better than the French. They have, for centuries, been bridges between this culture, the Mediterranean and the world.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8605\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/rima-abdul-malak-dessignace-2-the-markaz-review-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"711\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/rima-abdul-malak-dessignace-2-the-markaz-review-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/rima-abdul-malak-dessignace-2-the-markaz-review.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>After starting a career in humanitarian work, Rima Abdul Malak joined the Paris City Council as a deputy for culture, under the wing of Bertrand Delano\u00eb. In 2014, she left to pursue her career across the Atlantic at the French Embassy in New York, as a cultural attach\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>During the health crisis, she held the position of Cultural Advisor at the \u00c9lys\u00e9e, establishing ties with the unions. She was sometimes called the &#8220;second minister&#8221; of Culture, so much did she have the ear of Emmanuel Macron. Abdul Malak seems endowed with the skills, method and efficiency to manage the post-Covid issues of this sector.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, being both a transnational and a French Minister of Culture seems to continue to pose some problems for some. Along with Pap Ndiaye, a Black historian of minorities, newly appointed to the Ministry of Education, Rima Abdul Malak is best placed to make things happen, to be the minister of all French people, and to represent France in a globalized world.<\/p>\n<p>Pluriculturalism is a richness \u2014 it is high time to realize it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rosa Maria Branche welcomes Rima Abdul Malak as Macron&#8217;s choice for the new Minister of 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