Rima Abdul Malak (born 11 February 1979) is a

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politician who has been serving as Minister of Culture in the

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Élisabeth Borne since May 2022.

Early life

Abdul Malak was born into a Lebanese Christian family. She fled with her family during the Lebanese Civil War.

Political career

From 2012 to 2014, Abdul Malak worked as advisor on cultural affairs to Mayor of Paris Bertrand Delanoë. From 2014 to 2018, Abdul Malak served as cultural attaché at the

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. From 2019 to 2022, Abdul Malak served as advisor on cultural affairs and communications to President

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. Abdul Malak was appointed to the French government as a Minister of Culture in May 2022. On May 20, 2022, she was appointed Minister of Culture in the Élisabeth Borne government. She appoints Emmanuel Marcovitch as chief of staff. It undertakes to defend "cultural sovereignty, to invest in artistic education and to take up the challenge of the ecological transition in the artistic milieu" and to collaborate with the Minister of National Education,

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, with a view to appeasement of memories by quoting the words of Emmanuel Macron ″It is neither a policy of repentance nor a policy of denial, it is a policy of recognition″.

References

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