Culture Minister Ghassan Salameh alongside Hind Darwiche, Lebanon's ambassador to UNESCO, at the Saint-Malo Book Fair, where Lebanon was the guest of honor at the Étonnants Voyageurs festival. (Credit: Gilles Pensart)
Saint-Malo, Brittany, at the edge of the world. Every Whitsun weekend since 1990, the corsair city has hosted the Étonnants Voyageurs festival—one of the leading French-language gatherings for literature and film, attracting around 50,000 visitors.This year, there was the emotion of seeing the Lebanese flag flying atop the ramparts of the Grand Large palace. As guest of honor for this 36th edition, the country was present throughout the festival, from literature to cinema, from poetry to illustration, with a series of meetings dedicated to Beirut, exile, Lebanese memory and history. "We have been thinking about inviting Lebanon for a long time," explained Jean-Michel Le Boulanger, president of the Étonnants Voyageurs association, describing a "small country at the crossroads of cultures, religions, and peoples" where...
Saint-Malo, Brittany, at the edge of the world. Every Whitsun weekend since 1990, the corsair city has hosted the Étonnants Voyageurs festival—one of the leading French-language gatherings for literature and film, attracting around 50,000 visitors.This year, there was the emotion of seeing the Lebanese flag flying atop the ramparts of the Grand Large palace. As guest of honor for this 36th edition, the country was present throughout the festival, from literature to cinema, from poetry to illustration, with a series of meetings dedicated to Beirut, exile, Lebanese memory and history. "We have been thinking about inviting Lebanon for a long time," explained Jean-Michel Le Boulanger, president of the Étonnants Voyageurs association, describing a "small country at the crossroads of cultures, religions, and peoples"...
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