Baalbeck festival/freikeh festival. (Global Spotlight).(Brief Article)
American Theatre, July, 2002
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Baalbeck and Beit-Chabab. Lebanon.
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Lebanon offers two major festivals in the coming months. Once known to regularly boast the likes of Jean Cocteau, Miles Davis and the Royal Ballet with Nureyev and Fonteyn, the Baalbeck International Festival has been trying to reestablish its former reputation after a 23-year hiatus due to civil strife. War, politics and spirituality have battered the site for four millennia, and a giant, well-preserved Roman acropolis ...
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