Baalbeck festival/freikeh festival. (Global Spotlight).(Brief Article)

Baalbeck and Beit-Chabab. Lebanon.

Lebanon shows two major festivals in the coming month formerly 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 to be ascribed to civil strife. War, politics and spirituality have battered the site for four millennia, and a giant, well-preserved Roman acropolis