It was launched amidst war and destruction in the middle of the 80's.
It came as an act of faith in Lebanon's cultural specificity and its power of creativity and artistic freedom.
It was a call for normality in the middle of the chaos and madness of the civil war.
[1] The festival takes place in the 200-year-old Beiteddine Palace in the Chouf Mountains, in Lebanon.
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