Beirut Image Festival returns after two-year hiatus due to pandemic

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Beirut Image Festival returns after two-year hiatus due to pandemic

STORY: Beirut Image Festival returns after two-year hiatus due to pandemic DATELINE: Sept. 7, 2022 LENGTH: 00:04:08 LOCATION: Lebanon CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of photos at the Beirut Image Festival 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic): RAMZI HAIDAR, Photographer, Co-organizer 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Arabic): HOUSAM EL HAYEK, Visitor STORYLINE: The Beirut Image Festival is being held at the national library in Sanayeh of Beirut with the plan to hold several exhibitions in different places of the country. The festival, which runs from Sept. 1 to Sept. 30, pays tribute to Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh who was shot dead in the West Bank earlier this year and to the victims of the Beirut port blasts. SOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic): RAMZI HAIDAR, Photographer, Co-organizer "The first edition of the Beirut Image Festival was in 2019. We could not do the festival in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the economic crisis. In 2022, we insisted as a committee of the Beirut Image Festival to launch this festiva

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