Macron's former pen is now a civil servant of the Saudi regime | EUROtoday
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HASfter having been an advisor to Emmanuel Macron, head of communications on the Élysée, an affiliate for 2 years within the financial intelligence agency Avisa Partners then a short-lived advisor within the Dubai workplace of the British affect agency Consulum, the Normalien Sylvain Fort is now, formally… a civil servant of the Saudi regime.
The umpteenth turnaround on this sensible and versatile profession has gone utterly unnoticed, but the previous reminiscence advisor to our President of the Republic has, for 2 months, had a brand new boss within the individual of Prince Badr, Minister of Culture of Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
READ ALSO Who is Sylvain Fort, the president's pen?Having left to work in Dubai 9 months in the past, Sylvain Fort certainly crossed paths there with Mona Khazindar, a curator and historian of Saudi nationality who was additionally the primary girl to direct the Institut du Monde Arabe, in Paris, of 2011 to 2014. However, like many members of the Saudi elite educated overseas (she as soon as studied on the Sorbonne and the American University of Paris), Mona Khazindar returned just a few years in the past in Saudi Arabia to take part within the cultural restoration referred to as for by Crown Prince MBS.
Within the very current Ministry of Culture (created in 2018 by royal decree), Mona Khazindar now serves as president of the museum fee, of which the French literature professor is subsequently, immediately, the overall director. can extra official.
A museum coverage to be invented
Sylvain Fort’s roadmap? Lead at full velocity, all through the Kingdom, the whole renovation of round fifteen museums, and, purely and easily, construct round fifteen others. Outside of the Al Ula area, which is a little bit of a showcase for the transformation of the Saudi regime, the bold museum program to which Sylvain Fort should help will lengthen to all the kingdom and can embody, from Jeddah to Mecca passing via Riyadh, up to date artwork museums, a Red Sea museum, a number of native tradition museums.
A museum coverage to be invented in a area of the world the place cultural competitors is at its peak and the place every thing adjustments on the velocity of sunshine, a wage and budgets that may clearly make any French civil servant envious, we perceive the Grail, each mental and monetary, that this new place represents within the profession of the tutorial now primarily based in Riyadh. But it’s clearly prickly, seen from France, that this new web page within the Saudi nationwide story is written by the previous pen of Emmanuel Macron.
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