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Opera head sacked under Mursi is Egypt's culture minister
Riot police attempt to separate anti-Mursi protesters made up of intellectuals and artists and supporters of Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi in front of the Ministry of Culture during a demonstration, in Cairo June 11, 2013 - REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany
CAIRO, July 15 (Reuters) - The former head of the Cairo opera, who was sacked by ousted President Mohamed Mursi's Islamist government, has been named Egypt's new culture minister by the country's new military rulers.
Ines Abdel Dayem was fired as head of the Cairo Opera House by Mursi's culture minister in May.
Her sacking, along with an Islamist parliamentarian's call for a ban on ballet, prompted performers and cultural figures to stage a sit-in at the culture ministry lasting several weeks.
Dayem, a French-educated flautist, announced on Monday that she had accepted the post of culture minister in the interim government being set up by Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawi.
Beblawi has selected mostly liberals and technocrats for a cabinet to run Egypt under an army-backed road map to restore civilian rule after the military toppled Mursi and his government on July 3. (Reporting By Shadia Nasralla and Yasmine Saleh; Editing by Michael Roddy)
