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Summer festivals in Habbariyeh and Dhur Shuwayer
13-8-2018
Within the framework of economic and development activities across the country, the Annual Habariyeh Festivals Committee, in coordination with Al Habariyeh-Marjeyoun municipality, launched this year’s festival on August 10th at the ancient Roman temple of Baal Gad. The committee maintained that the occasion sought to be a reunion between town residents and the diaspora, is the outcome of joint work with the municipality and the local community. The two-day festival included an exhibition for traditional mouneh, heritage and artisan items as well as, folk dances and plays. In a related event, the municipality of Dhur Shuwayer-Ain Sindyaneh organized on August 11 the ‘Nights of Wine’ in Dhour Shweir, as part of the Expatriates Festival under the patronage of President Michel Aoun and the participation of a large number of pubs and wine producers, in addition to food pavilions. The mayor of the town, Habib Mjais, said the aim of the two-day event is to promote the area and highlight it as a main summer landmark on the tourist map. For his part, the director general of the ministry of agriculture, Louis Lahoud, stressed the consistent efforts by the ministry to sponsor and endorse the Lebanese wine in the various Lebanese regions and globally, disclosing that it will be available in the Chinese and Japanese outlets by 2019 after Europe and the US. (Al Diyar, Al Mustaqbal, August 11, 13, 2018)
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