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In Beirut, culture partially regains its rights

2022-11-28T16:15:29.981Z


Long deprived of cultural events, the Lebanese capital can, at the end of the year, count on several art exhibitions. If the most important is held at the Aïshti Foundation, a dozen galleries have also bet on the future.


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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Source: lefigaro

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