CAIRO — Ambassador Moushira Khattab, Egypt’s candidate for the post of UNESCO director general in the elections scheduled for 2017, said she is hoping an agreement on a single Arab candidate can be reached, following reports of a face-off between Cairo and Doha over leadership of the UN agency. Qatar announced in March its candidate for the post, Hamad Bin Abdulaziz Al-Kuwari, while Khattab’s nomination was declared at an event held at Cairo’s Egyptian Museum July 21.
In an interview with Al-Monitor, Khattab said the opportunity for an Egyptian-Qatari reconciliation is still on the table given the historic relations between the two.