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France’s Audrey Azoulay, the newly-elected director general of UNESCO, speaks to the media at the organization’s headquarters in Paris, France. (Reuters)

France’s Azoulay Wins UNESCO Director General’s Post

by Michel Abu Najm | Oct 14, 2017 | World

Paris – UNESCO’s executive board voted Friday to make a former French culture minister the UN cultural agency’s next chief for the four coming years after an unusually heated election. UNESCO’s executive board voted 30 to 28 in favor of Audrey...

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French President Emmanuel Macron receives US President Donald Trump in Paris in July. (AFP)

Macron Impresses in Diplomacy, Initiatives on Syria, Libya and Palestine

by Michel Abu Najm | Aug 3, 2017 | Features

Paris – Three months-and-a-half after his election as French president, Emmanuel Macron’s popularity has started to slip in opinion polls, as demonstrated by three surveys conducted in the past ten days. An Ifop poll on July 23 showed that he lost ten points from his...

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Outgoing French President Francois Hollande (R) and President-elect Emmanuel Macron attend a ceremony to mark the end of World War II at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France, May 8, 2017. REUTERS/Stephane De Sakutin/Pool

Hollande Says Macron to Be Inaugurated President on Sunday

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | May 8, 2017 | World

Emmanuel Macron will be inaugurated as France’s first-centrist president on Sunday at the Elysee palace, outgoing President Francois Hollande told French television. Hollande warmly greeted Macron on Monday in their first public meeting since Macron’s meteoric...

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People walk across Place de la Concorde on the eve of the French presidential election in Paris, France, May 6, 2017. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard

France Votes for a New President

by Michel Abu Najm | May 7, 2017 | World

Paris – Amidst tight security measures, French electors will be back to ballot boxes today in the second and decisive round of presidential elections, which will determine the president for the next five years. Emmanuel Macron – highly possible to win – would be...

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French presidential candidates Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron. (AFP)

‘Arab Voice’ in France to Vote for Macron

by Michel Abu Najm and Ulfat Qaddara | May 6, 2017 | World

Paris – French law prohibits carrying out surveys and opinion polls based on race or religion, so it is therefore difficult to reach conclusive results on who Arabs or Muslims will vote for in Sunday’s presidential elections. There are some five or six million...