Culture Minister Ghassan Salameh. (Archive photo by: Mohammad Yassin/L’Orient Today)
Culture Minister Ghassan Salameh held a press conference in which he presented an ambitious strategy that places cultural industries at the heart of Lebanon’s national recovery project.Contrary to a vision that relegates culture to a mere symbolic or incidental expense, this roadmap, unveiled at a conference at the National Library in Sanayeh and attended by a hundred of stakeholders, aims to make culture an economic, social, and worthy pillar of Lebanon by 2031. In case you missed this 2-part series (part one) In Lebanon, the failing cultural state tries to find its way (1/2) "Yes, the program is ambitious," he said, adding immediately, "It had to be." Designed in a context of multidimensional crises — economic, political, and social — and in the shadow of sensitive electoral deadlines, the strategy nevertheless...
Culture Minister Ghassan Salameh held a press conference in which he presented an ambitious strategy that places cultural industries at the heart of Lebanon’s national recovery project.Contrary to a vision that relegates culture to a mere symbolic or incidental expense, this roadmap, unveiled at a conference at the National Library in Sanayeh and attended by a hundred of stakeholders, aims to make culture an economic, social, and worthy pillar of Lebanon by 2031. In case you missed this 2-part series (part one) In Lebanon, the failing cultural state tries to find its way (1/2) "Yes, the program is ambitious," he said, adding immediately, "It had to be." Designed in a context of multidimensional crises — economic, political, and social — and in the shadow of sensitive electoral deadlines, the strategy...
