"A few years later the minister of culture asked me to make it a project for the state."

It is quite likely that he would have become culture minister in a democratic government.

After the war, he again served as minister of culture.

Some, though, have criticized the culture minister for trying to take too much under his control.

On 23 March 1997, he was appointed as minister of information and culture.

He was appointed minister of culture on 16 November 2011.

"The culture minister asked for the woman in a black veil to be covered up," they continued.

We wish him luck at the next meeting of culture ministers on this issue.

The minister of culture offered his resignation, but the president did not accept it.

"I wrote to the minister of culture," he said, "and the money came through."