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Festivals in
Lebanon are held mainly in summer; most famous are
Baalbeck international festival and Beiteddine
festivals, which join the major international shows and
events in the world, besides famous stars such as
"Luciano Pavarotti", "Fairouz", "Caracalla",
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- Al Bustan Festival
- Baalbeck Festival
- Beirut film festival
- Beiteddine festival
- Festival du Rire
- Tyre Festivals
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- Festival Itinerant des
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- Festivals Group
- Forum De Beyrouth
- Lebanese Emigrants
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Lebanon has a
lively arts scene, both traditional and
contemporary. The national dance, the
dabke, is an energetic Levantine
folk dance.
Classical belly dancing still plays an
important role at weddings,representing
the transition from virgin bride to
sensual woman, and is also popular in
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Traditional Arabic music is
created using unharmonised melodies and complex rhythms, often accompanied by
sophisticated, many-layered singing. Instruments used include the
oud, a pear-shaped string instrument; the tabla, a clay,
wood or metal and skin percussion instrument; the nay, a
single-reed, open-ended pipe with a lovely mellow tone; and the
qanun, a flat trapezoid instrument with at least 81 pluckable
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Literature and poetry have
always had an important place in Lebanese culture. One very popular form
of poetry is the zajal, in which a group of poets enter into a
witty dialogue by improvising verses to songs.
The most famous Lebanese
literary figure is Khalil Gibran, a 19th-century poet, writer and artist
whose work explored Christian mysticism. Contemporary writers include Amin
Maalouf, Emily Nasrallah and Hanan Al-Shaykh. |
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