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A politician, the Director-General of UNESCO since 2017, former French Culture Minister and an advisor to the former President of France, Francois Hollande. She is a native Parisian and the daughter of highly educated and prominent parents who immigrated to France from Morocco. Azoulay graduated from the Ecole Nationale d’Administration, the political science institution SciencePo in Paris, and the Lancaster University Management School (UK). She is a staunch supporter of cinema and audiovisual arts. Her meteoric political career ignited the anger of her anti-Semitic countrymen.

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