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Our new series, national icons, is about people who rise above politics to become symbols of a country's strengths. First we meet May Arida who has kept Lebanon's Baalbek festival alive despite wars and threats. She also happens to be our Beirut correspondent's granny.
Writer: Carole Corm
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