Unesco's first yes to Italian cuisine as intangible heritage of humanity

Unesco gives the first yes to Italian cuisine as World Heritage. This morning, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation made public the technical assessment of the candidacy dossier of the Italian cuisine: the body of UNESCO world experts recommends the inscription of Italian cuisine in the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. This is the first fundamental opinion that will be submitted to the final, political decision that will be taken by the Intergovernmental Committee of Unesco that will meet in India in New Delhi from 8 to 13 December.

It was a few days ago that Khaled El-Enany was appointed director general of the organisation, with 172 out of a total of 174 votes. Khaled Ahmed El-Enany Ali Ezz, born in 1971, is a professor of Egyptology at Helwan University (Egypt), where he has taught for over 30 years. From 2016 to 2022, he was Minister of Antiquities and then Tourism of the Arab Republic of Egypt, the twelfth dg and first director to come from an Arab country and the second African to hold this position after Senegalese Amadou Mahtar Mbow (1974-1987). El-Enany will take office on 15 November for a four-year term.