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The '''Baalbeck International Festival''' ({{lang-ar|مهرجانات بعلبك الدولية}}, {{lang-fr|Festival International de Baalbeck}}) is a cultural event in [[Lebanon]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.lebanontraveler.com/en/magazine/get-ready-for-the-baalbeck-international-festival/|title=Get Ready for the Baalbeck International Festival|last=LBTAdmin|date=2018-07-05|website=Lebanon Traveler|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-01}}</ref> Since 1955, people from around the world have gone to the city of [[Baalbek]] in the [[Beqaa Valley]] of Lebanon to attend the annual festival. Classical music, dance, theater, opera, and jazz as well as modern world music are performed each July and August in the ancient [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] [[Acropolis]].<ref>[http://www.baalbeck.org.lb/venu.asp?lng=en http://www.baalbeck.org.lb/venu.asp?lng=en] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070202111914/http://www.baalbeck.org.lb/venu.asp?lng=en |date=2007-02-02 }}, BIF Venues.</ref>
The presidents of the festival have been as follows:
Aimée Kettaneh from 1956 to
Salwa Said from
[[May Arida]] from
[[Nayla de Freige]] from 2011 to present.
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