The Baalbeck International Festival (Arabic: مهرجانات بعلبك الدولية, romanized: Mahrajānāt Baʿlabakk ad-Duwaliyya; French: Festival International de Baalbeck) is a cultural event in Lebanon.
[1] Since 1955, people from around the world have gone to the city of Baalbek in the Beqaa Valley of Lebanon to attend the annual festival.
[2] The presidents of the festival have been as follows: Aimée Kettaneh from 1956 to 1968, Salwa es-Said from 1969 to 1972, May Arida from 1973 to 2010 and Nayla de Freige from 2011 to present.
The festivals date back to the mid 20th century with the first organizing activities being held in 1955 as part of the "Touristic Year 1955."
In the early 1960s, it established a drama school called Théâtre Libanais Moderne for the promotion of works done by Lebanese authors.