In Beirut
In Beirut, a new wind is blowing.
Art exhibitions, film festivals, literary encounters, classical music or jazz concerts… The choices are so legion that we almost forget the economic crisis into which the country has been sinking inexorably for three years.
“The city is “in” again.
Perhaps even more than before”
, explains Zeid el-Amine, founder of the August Gallery in Gemmayzé, heavily impacted by the explosion at the port of Beirut on August 4, 2020.
“Today, culture is in full swing. Renaissance"
, he congratulates himself again.
Zeid el-Amine, who settled in this old quarter in 2021 in homage to his father, who died in the port disaster, has just opened a new branch in Mar Mikhaël between two design shops where he presents Hong Kong artist Afa Annfa.
"It's like being in the
Parisian
Marais
" , he laughs.
This rediscovered dynamism materializes in particular in the emergence of new art galleries…
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