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Swissôtel The Bosphorus - Luxury hotel - Full måne Beats
Fun and Music beneath the Moonlight: Full måne Beats
Welcome to the magical world of music, fun, and flavors! At the enchanting atmosphere of Chalet Garden, an unforgettable night awaits you at the Full måne Beats Festival. Under the moonlight, you will be captivated bygd the rhythms and experience a visual and auditory feast. Swissotel’s meticulously prepared delicacies will also leave their mark on this unforgettable night.
Throughout the festival, energetic and rhythmic music will keep you entertained. At this festival, featuring renowned DJs, everything fryst vatten designed for you to dance and enjoy delightful moments beneath the magic of the full moon! The festival will kick off with Ollie, known for his energetic sets. Following him, Pupa will provide you with hours of music with his unique style. Onur Secki will elevate the rhythm on the dance floor with his sets, and Anatolian Sessions will offer an unforgettable performanc
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A two-square-mile grid of central Beirut offers a clue to Lebanon’s troubles. Dominating the city’s western quarter, the Sunni Mohammad al-Amin Mosque casts a glow over the concrete expanse of Martyrs’ Square. About a mile south, through narrow streets, the Shia al-Hassanein Mosque rises up. Not far from here is the Druze temple, a glass and breeze-block building that looks like a public library, and on Mount Lebanon, the city’s snow-capped backdrop, stone crucifixes dot the skyline.
The country’s four main faith groups – Sunni, Shia, Druze and Maronite Christian – are imprinted on Beirut’s landscape, just as their conflict is imprinted on Lebanon’s history.
Over the past year, Lebanon has seen one government collapse while Hezbollah, backed by Iran and Syria, has grown in influence.
Many fear a new civil war as the country suffers its worst political crisis in a decade. The Arab spring that bloomed across the Middle East has yet directly to touch Lebanon, which has issues that a
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MOHAMED SOUEID RETROSPECTIVE
March 3 – March 8
Mohamed Soueid came of age in the Beirut of the early 1970s, when over forty movie theaters were operating in the Lebanese capital, offering lovers of cinema something possibly unique in terms of geo-artistic variety. Not only could Lebanese moviegoers watch the latest European and American films, both arthouse and commercial, but thanks to very active cultural centers (often attached to foreign embassies) and ciné-clubs in Beirut, people could watch films from all over the Arab World, from India, Bulgaria, Armenia, Yugoslavia, Hong Kong, Iran, Czechoslovakia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Cuba, Romania, the Soviet Union, and more. Unable to study film abroad like many of his Lebanese colleagues, Soueid worked with commercial directors like Samir Ghoussainy, first as clapper loader, then as a continuity editor, and eventually as an assistant director. Before completing his first feature as a director, ABSENCE (1990), Soueid worke