{"id":1815,"date":"2006-12-07T09:21:41","date_gmt":"2006-12-07T09:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1815"},"modified":"2006-12-07T09:21:41","modified_gmt":"2006-12-07T09:21:41","slug":"2006-12-7-ima-funding-under-threat-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1815","title":{"rendered":"IMA funding under threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">There is a looming financial crisis at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imarabe.org\/\">Institut du Monde Arabe<\/a> in Paris, according to this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/web\/imprimer_element\/0,40-0@2-3246,50-841681,0.html\">Le Monde report.<\/a> Arab states are supposed to be funding 40% of its budget, which keeps running a deficit, but they often push for something in exchange (exhibitions for Qadhafi&#8217;s son or insignificant Kuwaiti artists) and have been running late with payments. Just like the help they always promise the Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>Still, funding something like the IMA would probably get more diplomatic bang for the buck for France than its recently launched 24-hour news station. At less than 25 million euros a year for about one million visitors annually, a great library and bookshop, and some of the best exhibitions in Paris (not to mention a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatbuildings.com\/buildings\/L_Institut_du_Monde_Arabe.html\">Jean Nouvel building<\/a> that became an instant Paris landmark with its photo-reactive diaphragm windows), it&#8217;s a steal.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">There is a looming financial crisis at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imarabe.org\/\">Institut du Monde Arabe<\/a> in Paris, according to this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/web\/imprimer_element\/0,40-0@2-3246,50-841681,0.html\">Le Monde report.<\/a> Arab states are supposed to be funding 40% of its budget, which keeps running a deficit, but they often push for something in exchange (exhibitions for Qadhafi&#8217;s son or insignificant Kuwaiti artists) and have been running late with payments. Just like the help they always promise the Palestinians.<br \/>\nStill, funding something like the IMA would probably get more diplomatic bang for the buck for France than its recently launched 24-hour news station. At less than 25 million euros a year for about one million visitors annually, a great library and bookshop, and some of the best exhibitions in Paris (not to mention a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatbuildings.com\/buildings\/L_Institut_du_Monde_Arabe.html\">Jean Nouvel building<\/a> that became an instant Paris landmark with its photo-reactive diaphragm windows), it&#8217;s a steal.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[102],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}