Bizarre Comments By Tunisia's Minister of Culture

I love Tunisia and I love the people from that country who have made all Arabs proud of them and their work. Now, let's put this aside and watch this video interview with the Minister of Culture in Tunisia who has ties of Islamic groups. Mehdi Mabrouk sounds like a man of reason, until I saw his recent comments on this video.

When asked if he would bring in Nancy Ajram to take part of the Carthage Music Festiva, he said No! Elissa, No over my dead body and he had the same reply when asked if he would bring in Fadel Shaker too. That;'s all fine with me, these are people who perfrom for money and I could care less.

Now, the trouble started when two other names have been brought up. The Minister announced he would discuss the possibly of bringing in Lebanese composer and singer Melhim Barakat And he would even consider Lutfi Bouchnaq too.

I think this is insane, Melhim is a gifted musicians, but he is drinker and has no shame speaking about his habit and entertaining those drunk people was his most poplar gig. As for Lutfi his connection for the ousted dictator of Tunisia is hard to miss. He has asked the dictator to run again and has sang for him many times.

Other stars he is also ruling out, Tamer Hosny and Sherine. But he would consider inviting Fayrouz--one of the few sane thing he has said. This is a decision that belongs to the Tunisian people, we have no bone to pick, we are just point to the inconsistency of politicians. If they want not to have concerts, they can do that too.

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